General Chemistry 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-28505-137-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-28505-137-6

Chapter 13 - Rates of Reaction - Questions and Problems - Page 578: 13.17

Answer

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Work Step by Step

We know that the mechanism can not be like this $2NO_2Cl\rightarrow 2NO_2+Cl_2$. The order in $NO_2Cl$ will have to reflect the total number of molecules two for the proposed mechanism which is not in the current scenario.
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