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Re: CO2/H2CO3 equilibrium
Paul Sears writes:
> Right on! I think I should point out, though, that the reaction of
>CO2 with water to give H2CO3 is considered slow by chemists, because it
>takes seconds. Many of the other reactions that interest us are orders of
>magnitude faster. [...]
>
Good points, Paul. I know that I sometimes assume that everyone else knows
this stuff already. Back in my grad school days we (the Inorganic Chemists)
had a standing joke that a slow reaction was one that you didn't have to be a
femtosecond-pulsed-laser-jock (ie. a Physical Chemist)<G> to study the
kinetics.
Bill