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N-08

Rate laws and the Arrhenius equation — kinetic data as evidence for mechanism

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Covered as R-10, but worth listing here because the inferential move — using kinetic data as evidence for or against a proposed mechanism — has no GCSE analogue at all. The Arrhenius equation also requires natural logarithms and linearisation, likely the student's first use of ln in a science context.

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