As you may know chemical kinetics is an aspect of physical chemistry often refered to as simply rates of reactions
The importance of studying such a subject however boring it may first sound is to look at the importance of being able to predict how quickly a reaction mixture approaches equilibria.
Rate can be dependent on pressure, temperature and the presence of a catalyst which speeds up the rate of a reaction.
When scientists observe the rate of a reaction and measure it they are able to access alot of information about the reaction. We are able to understand the mechanism involved and therefore identify whether reaction intermediates are involeved etc etc etc. This helps scientists who work in small labs to industrial scale labs.
Within this web page i will make you aware of various techniques used to measure the rate of a chemical reaction experimentally.
