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The rates of unimolecular reactions in gases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. B. Slater
N. B. Slater
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius CollegeCambridge
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The molecule of a dissociating gas is treated as a dynamical system with n normal modes of vibration with incommensurable frequencies. The assumption that the molecule dissociates when one coordinate attains a critical high value leads to a unimolecular velocity constant expressed as an integral; analytical expressions are derived for bounds to its value. Calculations in a simple case indicate that the velocity constant is approximately of the form

This is in general agreement with experiment if the constant W is identified with the corresponding empirical energy constant.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1939 , pp. 56 - 69
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1939

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