VELOCITY OF REACTIONS 



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INORGANIC ANALOGY TO SCHUTZ'S RULE, NH 3 AND 

 ETHYL ACETATE 



. from A \og e [A : (A-x)]-x=K<?t. 



This deduction not only proves that the rule of 

 SCHUTZ is the indication of a special case of a 

 monomolecular process, but it shows also that the 

 transformed quantity is proportional to the square 

 root of the quantity q of the substrate. Further, 

 it gives the general law for the whole process and 

 not only for its beginning. Whenever we find that 

 the transformed quantity is a function of A^/ only 

 this circumstance gives an indication that the pro- 

 cess studied is of the monomolecular type. 



We will in the following find a great number 

 of very important biochemical processes which 

 show this characteristic feature. 



As we have seen above, peptic digestion is also, 

 to a great extent, dependent on the presence of free 



