General kinetic laws of monomolecular-bimolecular reaction A+B <= => C in solutions

A B Doktorov1, A A Kadetov, A A Kipriyanov

  • 1Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia. doktorov@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru

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