The first-order integrated rate law describes how the concentration of reactants in a chemical reaction changes over time when the reaction order is one.
Going back to our dodgeball game, if only one person throws balls at Bob and they throw at a consistent speed, no matter how many balls are thrown, Bob gets hit at the same frequency - that's first order kinetics!
Zero Order Reaction: A type of chemical reaction where changing the concentration of reactants doesn't affect the rate at which products are formed.
Pseudo First Order Reaction: A complex reaction that behaves like a first-order reaction because one reactant is present in such large quantities that its concentration hardly changes during the course of the reaction.
Arrhenius Equation: An equation that gives the dependence of the rate constant 'k' of a chemical reaction on temperature and activation energy.
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