15 Questions
What is the main focus of chemical kinetics?
Understanding the rates of chemical reactions
Who was the German chemist known for pioneering work in chemical kinetics in 1850?
Ludwig Wilhelmy
What did Peter Waage and Cato Guldberg publish in 1864 related to chemical kinetics?
The law of mass action
For what did Van 't Hoff receive the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901?
Discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics
What did Wilhelm Ostwald notice 34 years after Ludwig Wilhelmy's work?
The pioneering work on chemical kinetics done by Ludwig Wilhelmy
Which branch of physical chemistry is concerned with understanding the rates of chemical reactions?
Chemical kinetics
Who experimentally studied the rate of inversion of sucrose and used integrated rate law for the determination of the reaction kinetics of this reaction?
Ludwig Wilhelmy
Which law states that the speed of a chemical reaction is proportional to the quantity of the reacting substances?
Law of mass action
Who published the famous "Études de dynamique chimique" in 1884 and studied chemical dynamics?
Van 't Hoff
For what discovery was Van 't Hoff awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901?
Laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions
What does the Nernst equation allow the calculation of?
Reduction potential of a reaction
Which chemical form does the reaction quotient (Qr) compare in the Nernst equation?
Reduced form and oxidized form
What is the chemical activity of a dissolved species in the Nernst equation determined by?
Product of its activity coefficient and molar concentration
What does the Nernst equation take into account when calculating the reduction potential?
Electrical interactions between ions in solution
Who is the Nernst equation named after?
Walther Nernst
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