Saturday, 10 January 2009

a small annoyance

revision is annoying as it is for starters, but i have finally settled down to do work in the day time and enjoying the likes of the steady state approximation etc..
however continuing the kinetics theme im not impressed with two things both of a similar nature:
Oscillating reactions in particular the Lotka-Volterra Mechanism (1920), i spent a good half an hour or so reading this only to find at the bottom of the page. No known Chemical Reaction follows this mechanism. However oscillating reactions moved on from that and then i found this the briggs-rauscher reaction.
Secondly Lindemann mechanism most of my afternoon/evening was spent going over this and once again at the end... this theory is wrong particulary for big molecules. Marvelous.. it did however redeem itself with the lindemann-hinshelwood process.

a fun day to say the least. still i bought a new pair of headphones and got a cheeky sub on my short outting into town.

ps. dont quote me on the theories etc.. i may be talking about a whole load of bollocks ive sat at my desk too long once again which is never a good thing especially as ive been munching through a packet of tangfastics. yum yum.

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