¹ This constraint can be removed when we extend our analysis to nonideal (industrial) reactors in Chapters DVD13 and DVD14 on the DVD-ROM and in Chapters 13 and 14 in the fourth edition of ECRE.

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¹ Strictly speaking, the reaction rates should be written in terms of the activities, a_i, (a_i = γ_iC_i, where γ_i is the activity coefficient). Kline and Fogler, JCIS, 82, 93 (1981); ibid., p. 103; and Ind. Eng. Chem Fundamentals 20, 155 (1981).

However, for many reacting systems, the activity coefficients, γ_i, do not change appreciably during the course of the reaction, and they are absorbed into the specific reaction rate constant, k_A:

² Kinetic data for a larger number of reactions can be obtained on CD-ROMs provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Standard Reference Data 221/A320 Gaithersburg, MD 20899; phone: (301) 975-2208. Additional sources are Tables of Chemical Kinetics: Homogeneous Reactions, National Bureau of Standards Circular 510 (Sept. 28, 1951); Suppl. 1 (Nov. 14, 1956); Suppl. 2 (Aug. 5, 1960); Suppl. 3 (Sept. 15, 1961) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office). Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Stratospheric Modeling, Evaluate No. 10, JPL Publication 92-20 (Pasadena, Calif.: Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Aug. 15, 1992).

³ W. J. Moore, Physical Chemistry (Reading, Mass.: Longman Publishing Group, 1998).

⁴ M. Boudart, Kinetics of Chemical Processes (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1968), p. 168. J. W. Moore and R. G. Pearson, Kinetics and Mechanisms, 3rd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1981), p. 199. S. W. Benson, Thermochemical Kinetics, 2nd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1976).

⁵ R. Masel, Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis, New York: Wiley, 2001, p. 594.

⁶ M. Karplus, R.N. Porter, and R.D. Sharma, J. Chem. Phys., 43(9), 3259 (1965).