The thermal decomposition of nitryl chloride, NO2Cl, isbelieved to occur by the following mechanism:
(a) What is the overall reaction?
(b) What is the molecularity of each of the elementary steps?
(c) What rate law is predicted by this mechanism if the first Step is rate-determining?
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