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Mattie Bush
autoacceleration- gel effect bulk polymerization
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I should consume MORE monomer molecules in the same time..
That is saying exactly the same as "the rate of reaction increases". Of course if you increase the rate of reaction you will use up monomer faster and so eventually the rate will slow down, but that is true of any way of increasing the rate, e.g. increasing the temperature - rate will initially be faster, but the reaction will be over sooner - so I can't see the problem. Remember too that generally [M·] is much smaller than [M], so if the gel effect causes [M·] to rise by, say, a factor of 3, it will take some time for [M] to be reduced by a factor of 3.
I should consume MORE monomer molecules in the same time..
That is saying exactly the same as "the rate of reaction increases". Of course if you increase the rate of reaction you will use up monomer faster and so eventually the rate will slow down, but that is true of any way of increasing the rate, e.g. increasing the temperature - rate will initially be faster, but the reaction will be over sooner - so I can't see the problem. Remember too that generally [M·] is much smaller than [M], so if the gel effect causes [M·] to rise by, say, a factor of 3, it will take some time for [M] to be reduced by a factor of 3.
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