Many articles report the reaction kinetics by studying concentration vs. time plot for a reaction while the actual kinetics should be reaction rate vs. concentration!
" the actual kinetics should be reaction rate vs. concentration! " Ideally, yes. The problem is how to obtain such data experimentally. The reaction rate is measured from the dependence of concentrations of a given reactant/product on reaction time, which are the raw experimental data. The concentrations of all reactants and products change with time. Therefore, we report the raw data.
The slope of the concentration over time plot represents the kinetics.
" the actual kinetics should be reaction rate vs. concentration! " Ideally, yes. The problem is how to obtain such data experimentally. The reaction rate is measured from the dependence of concentrations of a given reactant/product on reaction time, which are the raw experimental data. The concentrations of all reactants and products change with time. Therefore, we report the raw data.
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