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An equation describing the rate at which a chemical reaction occurs in units of mol vol^-1 time^-1
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A measure of how fast a chemical reaction occurs.
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the speed of a chemical reaction
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A reaction rate is the speed at which reactants are converted into products in a chemical reaction. The reaction rate is given as the instantaneous rate of change for any reactant or product, and is usually written as a derivative (e. g. d[A]/dt) with units of concentration per unit time (e. g. mol L-1 s-1).
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(Sometimes referred to simply as rate.) The change with time in the concentration of a reactant or product involved in a chemical reaction. The rate of the reaction is given by the product of the rate coefficient for the particular reaction and the concentrations of the reactants.
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The reaction rate or rate of reaction for a reactant or product in a particular reaction is intuitively defined as how fast a reaction takes place. For example the oxidation of iron under the atmosphere is a slow reaction which can take years, the combustion of butane in a fire is a reaction that takes place in fractions of a second.
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