In: Chemistry
1. When graphing a Log-Log plot to determine the order of each reactant in an experiment, how do you determine which data points to plot?
2. what can be determined from the slope of a line generatd in a Log-Log plot?
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The graphical method makes use of the concentrations. One reactant is ioslated and others in large excess. A series of standards is used to make a Beer's Law plot, the best-fit equation which is used to determine the concentration of the isolated reactant and three plots are made. The first is concentration of the isolated reactant versus time. The second is of inverse concentration versus time, while the third is of the natural log of concentration versus time. These graphs, respectively, show zero, first, and second order dependence on the specific reactant. The graph that is most linear shows the order of the reaction with regard to that reactant.
if we take two reactents we cant draw log- log graph
only it is possible when one reactent is kept constant