Biology/How do I find the rate of a reaction?
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This might be a bit of a simple question for this site, but I can't find it anywhere.. I've been doing an experiment on diffusion and on a graph have different temperatures and times for each temperature, but how do I work out the rate?
Dear Beth,
The rate of reaction is equal to the slope of the line you will draw when you make the best fit line through the points on your graph.
If you don't remember how to calculate the slope of a line, this will help:
http://mathforum.org/cgraph/cslope/calculate.html
Good luck
Dana
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