The Rate-Limiting Step

042 - The Rate Limiting Step

In this video Paul Andersen explains why the slowest elementary step in a chemical reaction is the rate-limiting step. This step can be used to determine the overall rate law of the chemical reaction.

Do you speak another language? Help me translate my videos:


Music Attribution
Title: String Theory
Artist: Herman Jolly


All of the images are licensed under creative commons and public domain licensing:
File:Carbon-monoxide-3D-vdW.png, n.d.
File:Nitric-oxide-3D-vdW.png, n.d.
"File:Nitrogen-dioxide-3D-vdW.png." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Accessed November 2, 2013.
"File:Oxygen Molecule.png." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Accessed November 2, 2013.
Jynto. Space-filling Model of the Carbon Dioxide Molecule, One of the Most Important Chemical Compounds in the World - Vital for Life as We Know It, but Catastrophic at Excess Levels., July 15, 2011. Own work.

educational videos,science videos,high school science,rate-limiting step,rate law,chemistry,ap chemistry,educational,rate constant,elementary step,chemical reaction,reaction mechanism,