Consider the reaction A + B → C + D. Is each of the following statements true or false? (c) If the reaction is an elementary reaction, the rate law of the reverse reaction is first order.

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Hello everyone today you're being given. The following problem is the following statement true or false. For this reaction X plus Y gives A plus B. The rate law for the reverse reaction is second order, if the reaction is elementary. So if this reaction, since this reaction is elementary three law is going to be based on a molecular charity of the reaction, so we have this regular forward reaction and so the reverse reaction would simply be A plus B gives us X plus Y. And so the rate would be equal to K which is some constant times the concentration of our A times the concentration of our being. And so the rate law for both A and B are first order. Therefore, overall, the rate law is second order. So overall this is second order. So with that, this statement is true and with that, we've answered the question overall, I hope this helped and until next time.