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Nature 393, 735-737 (25 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/31590

Chemical kinetics:  Smaller, faster chemistry

Klavs Jensen1

Chemical kinetics is the study of mechanisms and rates of chemical processes, in anything from biological systems to man-made materials. To measure the rate of reaction between two chemical species, they must be mixed much faster than the reaction rate — otherwise only the mixing rate is observed.