SECOND ORDER REACTIONS

Let us take a second order reaction of the type

2A ⎯⎯→ product

Suppose the initial concentration of A is amoles litre^–1

. If after time t, x moles of A has reacted, the concentration of A is (a– x). We know that for such a second order reaction, rate of reaction is proportional to the square of the concentration of the reactant. Thus,