Talk:Reactions on surfaces

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I suggest we merge this article to be a sub-topic of surface chemistry. The current text seems to be an extensive discussion of chemical kinetics involving surface substrates. Therefore, I think it should be moved into a new section of surface chemistry entitled surface kinetics.

Also, the discussion is largely about limiting cases of kinetics involving a surface substrate. This extensive discussion is probably not necessary, and is quite similar to enzyme kinetics which also involve attachment of reagents to catalysts for reaction. I suggest we parse down the discussion, make it less technical, and maybe link to other wiki or non-wiki sites that provide the technical details.Az7997


 * I don't mind the merging, although surface chemistry holds almost no information at all, surface kinetics sounds perfectly good to me but i don't agree with the parsing down, on the contrary, enzyme kinetics has almost no formulae, storage room in wikipedia is big enough to let some technical info in and the only way to truly understand many things in science is having a mathematical expression that holds all the info, if one doesn't know anything about the subject they may be too much but as soon as someone knows a little bit the equations summarize a lot of info. I actually had the intention of adding the equations for enzyme kinetics in all types of inhibition.Knights who say ni 08:35, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

The formulas are not well explained and seem a bit strange to me, for example $$K_1$$ suddenly appears. I don't understand the topic well enough and don't have good access to books at the moment, so I don't have enough confidence to change it. Maybe someone can? Also $$\theta$$ is never given.

Ok, I edited the thing that I thought was completely not understandable, by adding the $$K_1$$ formula. But I still think that it might need some better explanations.

T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.243.172.86 (talk) 23:55, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

The Eley-Rideal equations were a bit wrong so I added my corrections to it, otherwise it is a good article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.243.172.86 (talk) 23:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Reference for "Simple decompositions on surfaces" and "Bimolecular reactions on surfaces"
Sections on "Simple decompositions on surfaces" and "Bimolecular reactions on surfaces" are strongly related to material found in the book: "Physical Chemistry" 3rd ed. by Gilbert W. Castellan, pp. 868-872. How should it be marked as the reference material? Flapointe (talk) 16:07, 16 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Material referencing this book (or any other work) should be cited as described in this help page. If you have trouble with this, you can always leave a message here, at my talk page or at the Teahouse (best option). Otherwise, point out the particular pieces of information related to the book and I will cite them for you. Hope this helps Tomásdearg92 (talk) 23:44, 11 May 2014 (UTC)