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Re: Units
Rate laws involve concentrations, so you will need to use moles per liter or mmols per liter. However, some rates use seconds, some use minutes, some use hours. You just have to be consistent while solving an equation in terms of what units you use.
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Re: Units
since the unit for rate is mol/(liters*seconds), you'd want to ideally use those units for the calculations.
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Re: Units
use the units for k requested in the question because sometimes it asks per second and sometime it asks per minute
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Re: Units
When working with rate laws, it is not necessary to convert to Si units immediately but is done to simplify/ make the answer more relevant. If you choose not to, just make sure to properly perform dimensional analysis to give your answer the proper units.
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Re: Units
While these are common units for these types of problems, it does not have to be these units specifically. Use whatever is consistent with the problem.
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Re: Units
i think it helps to just be consistent with the problem! i notice that i sometimes get lost along the way when i don't convert and forget what to cancel out
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Re: Units
Since the units which you generally deal with are mols per liter per second, you probably should.
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