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the science of how fast chemistry loses its patience
means The branch of science concerned with the rates at which processes happen and the forces or steps that drive them — most often the study of how quickly chemical reactions proceed.
from From Greek kinētikos, 'of motion,' which comes from kinein, 'to move' — the same restless root behind 'cinema' (literally moving pictures) and 'kinetic.' The word entered scientific English in the 19th century as physicists and chemists carved out the study of things in motion, whether bodies or molecules.
- rate vs yield
- Speed and destination are completely different questions
- catalyst trick
- Lowers the hill without being consumed
- temperature rule
- Ten degrees can double a reaction's pace
- enzyme speed
- Some accelerate reactions a billion-fold
- hidden steps
- The slowest step bottlenecks everything else
michaelis-menten equation — 1913 model describing enzyme reaction rates, foundational to biochemistry
arrhenius equation — 1889 formula relating temperature to reaction rate constants
collision theory — explains molecular collisions determining reaction rates, developed early 1900s