Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis

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The number of molecules reacting for each photon of light absorbed by the system.

Weak adsorption in which molecules are held to a surface by van der Waals forces alone.

The constant A in the Arrhenius equation, representing the frequency of appropriately oriented collisions.

A substance that has little catalytic activity itself but greatly increases the effectiveness of a catalyst.

A higher-order reaction that behaves as first order because one reactant is present in such large excess that its concentration is…