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Posted by hall on Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 5:12pm.

if the activation energy for a given compound is found to be 10 kJ/mol, with a frequency factor of 4.0x10^13 s-1, what is the rate constant for this reaction at 398K?

chemistry - DrBob222, Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 6:03pm
k = Ae^{(-E^a/RT)}
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_equation
chemistry - DrBob222, Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 6:05pm
I should have written E^a as E_a. Ea is the activation energy.

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