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document.write('<h5 align=center><a href=RecipAxisChart.html>Reciprocal Axis Chart.</a></h5>');
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document.write('<p>An Arrhenius equation gives the following relationship between some measure of reaction rate or chemical solubility and temperature:</p>');
document.write('<P align=center>K = A exp (-Q/RT)</P>');
document.write('<p>where K is the rate or solubility, A is a constant, Q is an activation energy, R is the gas constant, and T is the absolute temperature.  The equation above can be restated to:</p>');
document.write('<P align=center>log (K) = A\' - Q/RT</P>');
document.write('<p>A chart can be constructed with log(K) on the Y axis and reciprocal temperature (1/T) on the X axis; the slope of this line indicates the activation energy (actually -Q/R) and the intercept is the new constant A\'.  This page describes the construction of one variation of this type of chart.</p>');
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