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Chemical kinetics

Index Chemical kinetics

Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the study of rates of chemical processes. [1]

97 relations: Activation energy, Aleksandr Gorban, Aluminium, Aqueous solution, Arrhenius equation, Autocatalysis, Boltzmann distribution, Carbon dioxide, Catalysis, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Chemical clock, Chemical engineering, Chemical process, Chemical reaction, Chemical reactor, Combustion, Concentration, Curve fitting, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Detonation, Diamond anvil cell, Dynamic equilibrium, Electrochemical kinetics, Elementary reaction, Entropy, Enzyme, Enzyme kinetics, Exothermic process, Eyring equation, Fireworks, Flame speed, Flash photolysis, Fluid catalytic cracking, Free-energy relationship, Gas, Half-life, Heat transfer, Heterogeneous catalysis, Intrinsic low-dimensional manifold, Ion exchange, Isotope, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Keith J. Laidler, Kinetic isotope effect, Law of mass action, Liquid, Malic acid, Mathematical model, Michaelis–Menten kinetics, MLAB, ..., Molar mass distribution, Neighbouring group participation, Neutralization (chemistry), Nikolay Semyonov, Nonthermal surface reaction, On water reaction, Ordinary differential equation, Peter Waage, Phase (matter), Polymer chemistry, Positive feedback, PottersWheel, Pressure jump, Q10 (temperature coefficient), Radical (chemistry), Rate equation, Rate-determining step, Reaction mechanism, Reaction progress kinetic analysis, Reaction rate, Reaction rate constant, Relaxation (physics), Residence time, Reversible reaction, Rutherford Aris, Saliva, Salt (chemistry), Sherbet (powder), Shock tube, Sodium bicarbonate, Solid, Solution, Spectrophotometry, State of matter, Steady state (chemistry), Stepwise reaction, Stopped-flow, Surface area, Temperature, Temperature jump, Thermal energy, Thermodynamic activity, Thermodynamic free energy, Thermodynamic versus kinetic reaction control, Thermodynamics, Transition state, Volume. Expand index (47 more) »

Activation energy

In chemistry and physics, activation energy is the energy which must be available to a chemical or nuclear system with potential reactants to result in: a chemical reaction, nuclear reaction, or other various other physical phenomena.

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Aleksandr Gorban

Alexander Nikolaevich Gorban (Александр Николаевич Горба́нь.) is a scientist of Soviet origin, working in the United Kingdom.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Aqueous solution

An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water.

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Arrhenius equation

The Arrhenius equation is a formula for the temperature dependence of reaction rates.

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Autocatalysis

A single chemical reaction is said to be autocatalytic if one of the reaction products is also a catalyst for the same or a coupled reaction.

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Boltzmann distribution

In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution Translated by J.B. Sykes and M.J. Kearsley. See section 28) is a probability distribution, probability measure, or frequency distribution of particles in a system over various possible states.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalysthttp://goldbook.iupac.org/C00876.html, which is not consumed in the catalyzed reaction and can continue to act repeatedly.

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Cato Maximilian Guldberg

Cato Maximilian Guldberg (11 August 1836 – 14 January 1902) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Guldberg is best known as a pioneer in physical chemistry.

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Chemical clock

A chemical clock (or clock reaction) is a complex mixture of reacting chemical compounds in which the onset of an observable property occurs after a predictable induction time.

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Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering that uses principles of chemistry, physics, mathematics and economics to efficiently use, produce, transform, and transport chemicals, materials and energy.

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Chemical process

In a scientific sense, a chemical process is a method or means of somehow changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds.

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Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.

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Chemical reactor

A chemical reactor is an enclosed volume in which a chemical reaction takes place.

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Combustion

Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.

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Concentration

In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture.

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Curve fitting

Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, possibly subject to constraints.

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was an English physical chemist and a Nobel Prize laureate.

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Detonation

Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.

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Diamond anvil cell

A diamond anvil cell (DAC) is a high-pressure device used in scientific experiments.

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Dynamic equilibrium

In chemistry, a dynamic equilibrium exists once a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change.

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Electrochemical kinetics

Electrochemical kinetics is a field of electrochemistry studying the rate of electrochemical processes.

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Elementary reaction

An elementary reaction is a chemical reaction in which one or more chemical species react directly to form products in a single reaction step and with a single transition state.

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Entropy

In statistical mechanics, entropy is an extensive property of a thermodynamic system.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts.

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Enzyme kinetics

Enzyme kinetics is the study of the chemical reactions that are catalysed by enzymes.

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Exothermic process

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic process (exo-: "outside") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark, flame, or flash), electricity (e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning hydrogen).

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Eyring equation

The Eyring equation (occasionally also known as Eyring–Polanyi equation) is an equation used in chemical kinetics to describe the variance of the rate of a chemical reaction with temperature.

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Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

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Flame speed

The flame speed is the measured rate of expansion of the flame front in a combustion reaction.

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Flash photolysis

Flash photolysis is a pump-probe laboratory technique, in which a sample is firstly excited by a strong pulse (called pump pulse) of light from a laser of nanosecond, picosecond, or femtosecond pulse width or by a short-pulse light source such as a flash lamp.

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Fluid catalytic cracking

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is one of the most important conversion processes used in petroleum refineries.

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Free-energy relationship

In physical organic chemistry, a free-energy relationship or Gibbs energy relation relates the logarithm of a reaction rate constant or equilibrium constant for one series of reactions with the logarithm of the rate or equilibrium constant for a related series of reactions.

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Gas

Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).

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Half-life

Half-life (symbol t1⁄2) is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half its initial value.

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Heat transfer

Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems.

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Heterogeneous catalysis

In chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis refers to the form of catalysis where the phase of the catalyst differs from that of the reactants.

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Intrinsic low-dimensional manifold

In chemical kinetics, an intrinsic low-dimensional manifold is a technique to simplify the study of reaction mechanisms using dynamical systems, first proposed in 1992.

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Ion exchange

Ion exchange is an exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex.

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Isotope

Isotopes are variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number.

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jr. (30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist.

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Keith J. Laidler

Keith James Laidler (January 3, 1916 – August 26, 2003), born in England, was notable as a pioneer in chemical kinetics and authority on the physical chemistry of enzymes.

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Kinetic isotope effect

The kinetic isotope effect (KIE) is the change in the reaction rate of a chemical reaction when one of the atoms in the reactants is replaced by one of its isotopes.

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Law of mass action

In chemistry, the law of mass action is the proposition that the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the product of the activities or concentrations of the reactants.

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Liquid

A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure.

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Malic acid

Malic acid is an organic compound with the molecular formula C4H6O5.

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Mathematical model

A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language.

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Michaelis–Menten kinetics

Michaelis–Menten saturation curve for an enzyme reaction showing the relation between the substrate concentration and reaction rate. In biochemistry, Michaelis–Menten kinetics is one of the best-known models of enzyme kinetics.

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MLAB

MLAB (Modeling LABoratory) is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language.

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Molar mass distribution

In linear polymers the individual polymer chains rarely have exactly the same degree of polymerization and molar mass, and there is always a distribution around an average value.

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Neighbouring group participation

Neighbouring group participation (NGP) (also known as anchimeric assistance) in organic chemistry has been defined by IUPAC as the interaction of a reaction centre with a lone pair of electrons in an atom or the electrons present in a sigma bond or pi bond contained within the parent molecule but not conjugated with the reaction centre.

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Neutralization (chemistry)

In chemistry, neutralization or neutralisation (see spelling differences), is a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other.

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Nikolay Semyonov

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semenov), (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; – 25 September 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist.

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Nonthermal surface reaction

In the field of physical chemistry, a nonthermal surface reaction refers to an elementary reaction between a thermally accommodated adsorbed surface species and a reactant which has not yet thermally accommodated to the surface.

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On water reaction

On water reactions are a group of organic reactions that take place as an emulsion in water and that exhibit an unusual reaction rate acceleration compared to the same reaction in an organic solvent or compared to the corresponding dry media reaction.

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Ordinary differential equation

In mathematics, an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is a differential equation containing one or more functions of one independent variable and its derivatives.

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Peter Waage

Peter Waage (29 June 1833 – 13 January 1900) was a Norwegian chemist and professor.

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Phase (matter)

In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of space (a thermodynamic system), throughout which all physical properties of a material are essentially uniform.

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Polymer chemistry

Polymer chemistry is a chemistry subdiscipline that deals with the structures, chemical synthesis and properties of polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers.

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Positive feedback

Positive feedback is a process that occurs in a feedback loop in which the effects of a small disturbance on a system include an increase in the magnitude of the perturbation.

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PottersWheel

PottersWheel is a MATLAB toolbox for mathematical modeling of time-dependent dynamical systems that can be expressed as chemical reaction networks or ordinary differential equations (ODEs).

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Pressure jump

Pressure jump is a technique used in the study of chemical kinetics.

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Q10 (temperature coefficient)

The Q10 temperature coefficient is a measure of the rate of change of a biological or chemical system as a consequence of increasing the temperature by 10 °C.

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Radical (chemistry)

In chemistry, a radical (more precisely, a free radical) is an atom, molecule, or ion that has an unpaired valence electron.

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Rate equation

The rate law or rate equation for a chemical reaction is an equation that links the reaction rate with the concentrations or pressures of the reactants and constant parameters (normally rate coefficients and partial reaction orders).

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Rate-determining step

In chemical kinetics, the overall rate of a reaction is often approximately determined by the slowest step, known as the rate-determining step (RDS) or rate-limiting step.

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Reaction mechanism

In chemistry, a reaction mechanism is the step by step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical change occurs.

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Reaction progress kinetic analysis

In chemistry, reaction progress kinetic analysis (RPKA) is a subset of a broad range of kinetic techniques utilized to determine the rate laws of chemical reactions and to aid in elucidation of reaction mechanisms.

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Reaction rate

The reaction rate or rate of reaction is the speed at which reactants are converted into products.

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Reaction rate constant

In chemical kinetics a reaction rate constant or reaction rate coefficient, k, quantifies the rate of a chemical reaction.

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Relaxation (physics)

In the physical sciences, relaxation usually means the return of a perturbed system into equilibrium.

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Residence time

For material flowing through a volume, the residence time is a measure of how much time the matter spends in it.

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Reversible reaction

A reversible reaction is a reaction where the reactants form products, which react together to give the reactants back.

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Rutherford Aris

Rutherford "Gus" Aris (September 15, 1929 – November 2, 2005) was a chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005).

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Saliva

Saliva is a watery substance formed in the mouths of animals, secreted by the salivary glands.

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Salt (chemistry)

In chemistry, a salt is an ionic compound that can be formed by the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base.

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Sherbet (powder)

Sherbet is a fizzy powder sweet, usually eaten by dipping a lollipop or liquorice, or licking it on a finger.

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Shock tube

The shock tube is an instrument used to replicate and direct blast waves at a sensor or a model in order to simulate actual explosions and their effects, usually on a smaller scale.

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Sodium bicarbonate

Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogen carbonate), commonly known as baking soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3.

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Solid

Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma).

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Solution

In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.

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Spectrophotometry

In chemistry, spectrophotometry is the quantitative measurement of the reflection or transmission properties of a material as a function of wavelength.

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State of matter

In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist.

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Steady state (chemistry)

In chemistry, a steady state is a situation in which all state variables are constant in spite of ongoing processes that strive to change them.

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Stepwise reaction

A stepwise reaction is a chemical reaction with one or more reaction intermediates and involving at least two consecutive elementary reactions.

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Stopped-flow

Stopped-flow is a lab technique for studying fast chemical reactions.

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Surface area

The surface area of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.

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Temperature jump

The temperature jump method is a technique used in chemical kinetics for the measurement of very rapid reaction rates.

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Thermal energy

Thermal energy is a term used loosely as a synonym for more rigorously-defined thermodynamic quantities such as the internal energy of a system; heat or sensible heat, which are defined as types of transfer of energy (as is work); or for the characteristic energy of a degree of freedom in a thermal system kT, where T is temperature and k is the Boltzmann constant.

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Thermodynamic activity

In chemical thermodynamics, activity (symbol) is a measure of the "effective concentration" of a species in a mixture, in the sense that the species' chemical potential depends on the activity of a real solution in the same way that it would depend on concentration for an ideal solution.

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Thermodynamic free energy

The thermodynamic free energy is the amount of work that a thermodynamic system can perform.

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Thermodynamic versus kinetic reaction control

Thermodynamic reaction control or kinetic reaction control in a chemical reaction can decide the composition in a reaction product mixture when competing pathways lead to different products and the reaction conditions influence the selectivity or stereoselectivity.

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Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is the branch of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work.

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Transition state

The transition state of a chemical reaction is a particular configuration along the reaction coordinate.

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Volume

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_kinetics

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