Determination of a Gas-Phase Bimolecular Rate Coefficient Using a Discharge Flow Tube

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The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 5 Issue 6 (2000) pp 317-320

Determination of a Gas-Phase Bimolecular Rate Coefficient Using a Discharge Flow Tube

M. A. Teruel, R. A. Taccone, and S. I. Lane*

INFIQC- Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Pabellón Argentina, Ala 1, 2do. piso. 5000 Córdoba, Argentina

Published online: 9 October 2000

Abstract. A laboratory experiment for senior undergraduate students, the determination of the rate coefficient for the reaction of oxygen atoms with hexafluoropropene, is presented. This reaction has the advantage of not having any important secondary reactions. This laboratory experiment introduces the undergraduate physical chemistry student to advanced kinetic techniques and provides a test of the fundamental principles of chemical kinetics.

Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; physical chemistry, kinetics

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: s-lane@fisquim.fcq.unc.edu.ar)

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