Tuesday, 19 June 2007

Pseudo Order Reaction

Surprisingly while mugging for blocks, I got exceptionally weighed down by a particular topic of Chemistry that would be tested - Reaction Kinetics. Mainly because I missed quite a few lectures on it, and happened to realise that I do not know a lot about it. Flipping through the pages, I stumbled upon something relatively interesting, the Pseudo Order Reaction.
Pseudo Order Reaction
- If a particular reactant is present in large excess with respect to the other reactants, its concentration will not change significantly during the reaction and can be regarded as constant. The rate of reaction will appear to be independent of this reactant concentration and the reaction is pseudo zero order with respect to this reactant.
It is somehow interesting to note that our life is always affected by certain things. Certain things more than others. Which happens to make us stumble a lot when we get too tied up with some things in life. For eg. bgrs, family, friends, or even studies. It makes us fail to consider other things that is still part of life. Which is exactly what the pseudo order reaction states. If we allow too much of certain things to influence our lives, the others don't get the attention they need.

At first, my idea of solving it is to counter the Pseudo Order Reaction. Which means simply to take note of more things around you, giving them more place in your heart. It is somehow like what I used to do, to balance things up such that each doesn't affect me too much. But it is not easy, because some things do need to take up more proportion, like how some people takes up more space in your heart than others, undeniably.

Then to move further on, some people forever has something that is affecting them more than the others. Like how elements have differing electronegativities. For example I am a sodium[Na+] ion, to balance up the charges, I would need an electron, perhaps from a chloride[Cl-] ion. Which means that they would have to have that particular thing that affects them to stay, like perhaps Na likes Cl, which makes them form a compound, like how our parents are working hard because of the family, of which without the family, they might not be striving so much to earn their keep.

However, teenage life is simple. Like temporary dipoles. At any point of time we might be induced to a slight negative charge or positive charge, which may mean that, we are affected by different things at different point of time. Then the enlightenment would be that we cannot allow these things to influence us too much, because we still have other things that require us to do. We are young, thus do not have much commitment to certain things. As much as we may be affected by certain events of life, we still have to be sure we keep in mind of our other duties; studies, friends, family and everything we need to juggle.

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