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THERE is a wide and constantly growing experimental material which proves that within a group of closely related chemical reactions, there is a linear relationship between the logarithms of the velocity constants (log k) and the logarithms of the equilibrium constants (log K): (1) log k = log K + const.
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EVANS, M., POLANYI, M. Equilibrium Constants and Velocity Constants. Nature 137, 530–531 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137530a0
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