Overall Order
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Joonsoo Kim 4L
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Overall Order
What is the significance of determining the overall order of a reaction if it doesn't help you understand the individual orders or rate?
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alanaarchbold
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Re: Overall Order
It helps for when you're finding the units for k because the units are M^(1-n) x t^-1 where n is the overall order
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Kevin ODonnell 2B
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Re: Overall Order
Good question. The only thing I can think of is it would tell you the units of the equation as seen in the table below.
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Dhwani Krishnan 1G
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Re: Overall Order
you can use it to determine how the overall rate will change with a change in reactant concentration
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Adrienne_4F
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Re: Overall Order
The overall order can help us determine the units of K and figure out which order reaction equation we should use.
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Nghi Nguyen 2L
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