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If it takes 30 seconds for a reactant concentration to decrease from 1.0 M to 0.5 M in a first-order chemical reaction, then what is the rate constant for the reaction?
well, it went down 1/2 M in 1/2 minute.
so 0.046s^-1 ??

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