elementary step

[Sophia Dinh 1D]

What does it mean for a step to be elementary or non elementary?

[Catherine Daye 1L]

An elementary step is one that occurs within a reaction to produce the final products shown in the final balanced equation. It is not typically show in the final equation and includes intermediates.

[Helen Struble 2F]

Elementary steps show all the individual collisions that lead to a final product, including the formation/consumption of intermediates. The elementary steps represent what is happening on a molecular scale in between individual atoms and molecules.

[Thomas Vu 1A]

Yea the elementary steps are all technically considered steps to the reaction mechanism and if the reaction mechanism is proven as viable, it becomes the reaction rate law