Engineering
Chemistry
Methods of Determination of Order of Reaction
Question

At a certain temperature the following data were collected for the reaction

     2ICI  +    H2   →   I2.  +   2HCl

Initial Concentration(M) Initial Rate of formation of I2 (Ms–1)
[ICl] [H2]  
0.10 0.10 0.0015
0.20 0.10 0.0030
0.10 0.05 0.00075

Determine overall order of reaction

2

0

1

3

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Solution

From 1st and 2nd data order of reaction w.r.t. ICl is 1, from 1st and 3rd data order of reaction w.r.t. H2 is 1, so overall order of reaction is 2.