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Can you get 1.5 order reactions? or just whole numbers?

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we did an experiment and the order seems to be 1.5... lol can you get this or only whole numbers (as in round it to 1 or 2)??

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  1. Yes, you can get fractional orders for rate laws.  This indicates that there is a multistep reaction mechanism that may have more than one rate determining step.


  2. I know that you can get 3/2 reactions which equal 1.5...

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