Define the term Molecularity?

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Define the term Molecularity?

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Molecularity of a reaction is the number of molecules that take part in a single-step reaction.

Molecularity is only defined for a single-step of the reactions which will be the sum of the coefficients of the reactants.

It can be unimolecular, bimolecular, trimolecular , etc.

Ie, in the reaction A+B → C , the molecularity = 1+1 = 2 . It is bimolecular reaction.

 

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