In the Rate of an Iodine Clock Reaction experiment, the following data were collected by a student: Write down the Equation of the reaction under study and calculate the order of the reaction. following data were collected by a student:
Expert Answer
The balanced chemical equation is
From first and third experiments, when is kept constant and [NaI] is doubled, the time of the reaction is reduced to one half from 162s to 82s. This indicates that the rate of the reaction is doubled. Hence, the order of the reaction with respect to NaI is 1.
From first two experiments, when [NaI] is kept constant and is doubled, the time of the reaction is reduced to one half from 162s to 84s. This indicates that the rate of the reaction is doubled. Hence, the order of the reaction with respect to is 1.
Hence, the overall order of the reaction is .