1Department of Chemistry, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007, India
2Department of Chemistry, St. Ann's College for Women, Mehdipatnam Hyderabad-500028, India
World Journal of Chemical Education.
2025,
Vol. 13 No. 4, 103-106
DOI: 10.12691/wjce-13-4-3
Copyright © 2025 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Y. Sharanya, N. Keerthana, V. Rajeswari, Sanjeev Rachuru, D. A. Padmavathi, V. Jagannadham, G. Ramya Sree. Are the Stoichiometric Coefficients in a Chemical Reaction Indication of the Kinetic Orders of the Reactants? An Inspiration to Chemistry Graduate Students.
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2025; 13(4):103-106. doi: 10.12691/wjce-13-4-3.
Correspondence to: V. Jagannadham, Department of Chemistry, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007, India. Email:
jagannadham1950@yahoo.comAbstract
It is a general tendency of the students and some of the teachers of chemistry that they conceive the stoichiometric coefficients of a balanced equation of a chemical reaction are the individual kinetic orders of those reactants involved in the rate equation of that reaction. But this is not true. The stoichiometric coefficients have nothing to do with individual kinetic orders of the reactants involved in the reaction or in the rate equation. A detailed explanation with a suitable example for this misconception is provided in the present article.
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