The equilibrium reaction of nitrogen dioxide and oxygen to make nitrogen monoxide and ozone, O3, involves an elementary reaction for both the forward and reverse reactions:
a) Write the two elementary reactions involved in this equilibrium reaction
b) Write the rate laws for the two elementary reactions you listed in part (a)
c) What is true of these two reaction rates (forward and
reverse) at equilibrium?
d) Substitute expressions from part (b) into your answer for part
(c) above:
e) Rearrange your result from part (d) into an equality that has
the ratio of the forward rate constant divided by the reverse rate
constant on one side and all other terms on the other side of the
equal sign.
f) Write the balanced equation for the overall reaction
g) What is the relationship between Guldberg and Waage's
equilibrium constant and the ratio that you derived above in part
(e)?
(1) step 1: NO + O? ? NO? + O?
step 2: NO? + O? ? NO + O?
Where the second step is just the reverse of the first step. Now
see if you can do the rest.
Mark, the question wants you to consider an equilibrium reaction
with just one forward step and one reverse step [this is made even
clearer in the wording of part (c): "What is true of these 2
reaction rates (forward and reverse) at equilibrium?".] The
reaction does make nitrogen dioxide and oxygen, it is just that
"oxygen" means dIoxygen, the normal diatomic stable form of oxygen,
the element
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