CHEM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Insecticide, Reaction Rate Constant

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Chem 102: general descriptive chemistry ii lecture 16: integrated rate laws and half-life (3/17/15) Why we care about integrated rate laws: they tell us how concentration of a reactant is changing over time, regular rate laws do not include the variable of time. If a reaction is 1st order, the plot of ln[a] versus time will be a straight line with a slope of k. Example problem: an insecticide is decomposing in water at 12 degrees celsius. The insecticide contaminates a lake with initial concentration of 5. 0 x. What is the concentration of insecticide after 1 year: ln [a]1 year = -kt + ln (5. 0 x 10-7 g x cm3, ln[a]1 year = -15. 96, [a]1 year = e-15. 96, = 1. 2 x 10-7 g x cm3. Second order processes: formula, (1 / [a]t) = kt + (1 / [a]0, looks like equation for a line, plot of concentration versus time reveals a straight line where the rate constant is the slope.

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