What is bimolecular?
One is confronted with the term "bimolecular" already in school. For many students, however, the entire system behind it is more like a book with seven seals. However, the so-called molecularity can be explained relatively easily.
When are substances bimolecular?
- The word “bimolecular” can already be understood by breaking it down into its parts. “Bi” means nothing else than “two” and “molecular” indicates that you are dealing with issues at the molecular level.
- Of course, that alone is not an exhaustive answer, so you should start with the chemistry generally consider. This deals with elements that are in the Periodic table are registered.
- One element stands out from others because all atoms have the same number of protons in their nucleus. They therefore have the same atomic number (also called atomic number).
- Chemical elements but can have similar properties despite different atomic numbers.
- Oxygen and hydrogen, for example, are both bimolecular, since in a chemical reaction two molecules are involved in what is known as the rate-determining step. This property is called molecularity.
- The counterpart to the bimolecular is the unimolecular property. Accordingly, only one molecule is responsible for the reaction step here.
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Molecularity is everywhere
- Basically, every process is “molecular” as soon as changes take place on the molecular level (on the level of the particles) as a result of the reaction.
- Such reactions can not only be provoked by experiments in the laboratory; rather, they take place all the time in nature.
- The course of a chemical reaction - seen at the molecular level - is for many simply abstract, but to put it simply, one simply has an educt A and an educt B. Both now collide and the result is products C and D.
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