by Alex Kent | Oct 21, 2016
What’s Your Rate Determining Step? In Chemistry, the overall rate of a reaction is often determined by the slowest step, known as the rate determining step or rate-limiting step. If you can speed up the rate determining step – for example by using a catalyst –...
by Alex Kent | Oct 21, 2016
Are You Distracted By The Spider In Your Cellar? The context for this (perhaps unusual) question was kindly provided by my wife. She stopped by a local coffee shop and asked for a coffee and a pastry from the waitress who came to take her order. The coffee duly...