10 Questions
Who is considered the pioneer of chemical kinetics?
Ludwig Wilhelmy
What did Van 't Hoff study and publish in 1884?
Chemical dynamics; 'Études de dynamique chimique'
What did Peter Waage and Cato Guldberg publish in 1864?
The law of mass action
What did Ludwig Wilhelmy experimentally study in 1850?
The rate of inversion of sucrose
For what was Van 't Hoff awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901?
Discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions
Who is credited with the pioneering work of chemical kinetics?
Ludwig Wilhelmy
What is the law of mass action published by Peter Waage and Cato Guldberg in 1864?
The law of mass action states that the speed of a chemical reaction is proportional to the quantity of the reacting substances.
What did Van 't Hoff study and publish in 1884?
Van 't Hoff studied chemical dynamics and published his famous 'Études de dynamique chimique'.
What is chemical kinetics concerned with understanding?
Chemical kinetics is concerned with understanding the rates of chemical reactions.
What did Wilhelm Ostwald notice 34 years after Ludwig Wilhelmy's work?
Wilhelm Ostwald noticed Ludwig Wilhelmy's work on the rate of inversion of sucrose 34 years later.
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