Nitroglycerine is an extremely sensitive explosive. In a series of carefully controlled experiments, samples of the explosive were heated to 160 °C and their first-order decomposition studied. Determine the average rate constants for each experiment using the following data: Initial [C3H;N,Og] (M) 4.88 3.52 2.29| 1.81| 5.33 4.05 2.95 1.72 t (s) 300 300 300 300 180 180 180 180 % Decomposed 52.0 52.9 53.2 53.9 34.6 35.9 36.0 35.4

Nitroglycerine is an extremely sensitive explosive. In a series of carefully controlled experiments, samples of the explosive were heated to 160 °C and their first-order decomposition studied. Determine the average rate constants for each experiment using the following data: Initial [C3H;N,Og] (M) 4.88 3.52 2.29| 1.81| 5.33 4.05 2.95 1.72 t (s) 300 300 300 300 180 180 180 180 % Decomposed 52.0 52.9 53.2 53.9 34.6 35.9 36.0 35.4

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