Consider the zero-, first-, and second-order integrated rate laws. If you have concentration versus time data for some species in a reaction, what plots would you make to “prove” a reaction is either zero, first, or second order? How would the rate constant, k, be determined from such a plot? What does the y-intercept equal in each plot? When a rate law contains the concentration of two or more species, how can plots be used to determine k and the orders of the species in the rate law?
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