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Introduction What is a reaction? A reaction is when two particles (reactants) join to form a new product or products. What is rate? Rate is a measure of how fast or how slow something is. Rate is a measurement of the change that happens in a single unit of time, any suitable measurement can be used such as seconds, minutes, hours or even days. What is the rate of a chemical reaction? The rate of a chemical reaction is how fast the reactants react. How to find the rate of a reaction? In general to find the rate of a reaction, you should measure either the amount of reactant used up per unit of time or the amount of product produced per unit of time. The rate during the reaction does not stay constant, it changes throughout the reaction, its greatest at the start but gets slower as the...

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