Are the steps that come after the rate-limiting step instantaneous?
Then why are they not counted in speed?
Then why are they not counted in speed?
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The rate-limiting step is counted because it is what takes the longest in terms of reaction mechanisms. The rate-limiting step is generally close to the same length as the entire reaction mechanism.
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see that the slowest step in a concatenated process governs the rate of the whole process, and this step is the one to accelerate; imagine you have a store in which you must wait to sell a certain number of goods to have cash to then adquire more goods so as to sell and so on. To accelerate this process you need capital so to be able to buy before gathering enough money from sales so as to adquire your merchandise in a greater amount and at a lower price. The other steps of the store service process as cleaning, making the paying roll or other accounting steps will still be fast enough compared to the rate-limiting step of selling.