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    Analysis of the Reaction Rate Coefficients for Slow Bimolecular Chemical Reactions

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    Simple bimolecular reactions A1+A2⇌A3+A4A_1+A_2\rightleftharpoons A_3+A_4 are analyzed within the framework of the Boltzmann equation in the initial stage of a chemical reaction with the system far from chemical equilibrium. The Chapman-Enskog methodology is applied to determine the coefficients of the expansion of the distribution functions in terms of Sonine polynomials for peculiar molecular velocities. The results are applied to the reaction H2+Cl⇌HCl+HH_2+Cl\rightleftharpoons HCl+H, and the influence of the non-Maxwellian distribution and of the activation-energy dependent reactive cross sections upon the forward and reverse reaction rate coefficients are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, to appear in vol.42 of the Brazilian Journal of Physic

    Erratum: Measurement of σ

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