Bimolecular

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Can someone explain to me what bimolecular means? Thank you!!

[Henry Krasner 1C]

A bimolecular reaction is where the rearrangement of two molecules (as reactants) produce one or more molecules of product.

[Sophia_Kiessling_2L]

it basically just means that there are two reactants as in A+B yields C or 2A yields B

[Krista Mercado 1B]

A bimolecular reaction involves two reactants. This is an example of a second-order reaction.

[Athena L 1B]

So is a bimolecular reaction another way of saying it's second order?

[Rhea Churi 4K]

So is a bimolecular reaction another way of saying it's second order?

A bimolecular reaction is always a second order reaction but not all second order reactions are bimolecular.

[Henry Dudley 1G]

Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?

[Subhani Diu 1F]

Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?

I believe in lecture he showed that a bimolecular reaction was specifically related to reactants that are/add up to second order only. For third order (which he said was unlikely) they were labeled as termolecular.

[MichelleRamirez_2F]

Bimolecular means that for a certain reaction there are two reactants. There's also unimolecular where there is only 1 reactant in the reaction and termolecular for three reactants.

[KHuang1L]

Bimolecular means there are two species involved in the elementary step.

[Gillian Ward 1F]

Bimolecularity refers to having two molecules colliding in a reaction.

[Anmol_cheema_2F]

Molecularity refers to the number of reactants in an elementary reaction so a bimolecular reaction contains two reactants.

[Anita Wong 1H]

Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?

no i believe theyre directly related so thats not possible

[Rami_Z_AbuQubo_2K]

Bi molecular is a description of how many molecules are participating on the reactants side of an equation. In every case, you would look at the reaction before intermediates or catalysts are removed. If there is only one molecule reacting, then you know it is unimolecular. If you see that there are 3, then it is molecular but that is not very common.