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A) + /a]. At sufficiently low pressures, where /2(A) 3, the reaction should appear to be second order, since — > i(A) and - d A)/dt = /i(A). If we refer to the Lindemann scheme, the high-pressure constancy of / corresponds to the rate-determining slow decomposition preceded by a rapid activation-deactivation step. As the pressure is decreased, the activation-deactivation step becomes slower as the binary-collision frequency decreases quadratically with pressure. Thus the rate of this activation-deactivation step tends to approach that of the decomposition step, which decreases linearly with pressure. In principle, the rate of the unimolecular decomposition of A may become rapid relative to the activation-deactivation step, and the overall reaction is then characterized by the slow bimolecular step and follows a second-order rate law. 

As it has appeared in recent years that many hmdamental aspects of elementary chemical reactions in solution can be understood on the basis of the dependence of reaction rate coefficients on solvent density [2, 3, 4 and 5], increasing attention is paid to reaction kinetics in the gas-to-liquid transition range and supercritical fluids under varying pressure. In this way, the essential differences between the regime of binary collisions in the low-pressure gas phase and tliat of a dense enviromnent with typical many-body interactions become apparent. An extremely useful approach in this respect is the investigation of rate coefficients, reaction yields and concentration-time profiles of some typical model reactions over as wide a pressure range as possible, which pemiits the continuous and well controlled variation of the physical properties of the solvent. Among these the most important are density, polarity and viscosity in a contimiiim description or collision frequency. 

The dynamics of ion surface scattering at energies exceeding several hundred electronvolts can be described by a series of binary collision approximations (BCAs) in which only the interaction of one energetic particle with a solid atom is considered at a time [25]. This model is reasonable because the interaction time for the collision is short compared witii the period of phonon frequencies in solids, and the interaction distance is shorter tlian the interatomic distances in solids. The BCA simplifies the many-body interactions between a projectile and solid atoms to a series of two-body collisions of the projectile and individual solid atoms. This can be described with results from the well known two-body central force problem [26]. 

Modern analyses of perikinesis and orthokinesis take account of hydrodynamic forces as well as interparticle forces. In particular, the frequency of binary collisions between spherical particles has received considerable attention(27 30). 

The relative frequency of uni- and bi-molecular reactions.—Uni- and bi-molecular reactions are very much more frequent than more complex reactions involving three or more molecules. This applies more particularly to reactions in gaseous systems. The number of binary collisions per second must be very much greater than the number of simultaneous collisions between, say, three molecules. 

This behavior can be attributed to the local CC>2-density around the solute and can be rationalized within the framework of the isolated binary collision model. The deactivation rate of the excited molecule in this case is proportional to the collision frequency Zip, T) which is correlated with the local density [23]. 

This breakdown of the linear relationship between the absorption coefficient a and the product of densities, Q1Q2, indicates that the observed absorption is not a binary process. Specifically, for the case at hand, one can no longer assume that the measured absorption consists of an incoherent superposition of the pair contributions. Rather, the correlations of the dipoles that are induced in subsequent binary collisions lead to a partially destructive interference, an absorption defect that occurs if the product of the time T12 between Ne-Xe collisions, and microwave frequency, /, approaches unity [404], We note that for the spectra shown above, Figs. 3.1 and 3.2, the product fx 2 is substantially greater than unity at all frequencies where experimental data are shown and, consequently, incoherent superpositions of the waves arising from different induced dipoles occur. The intercollisional absorption defect is limited to low frequencies (Lewis 1980). 

This concludes the theory of collision-induced line shapes of binary systems, that is the line shape that one might observe at gas densities that are not too high - with one exception near zero frequency the intercollisional dip will always be present, no matter how low the pressure may be. The absorption dip is a many-body effect and is not obtainable from a binary theory (Poll 1980). At low gas densities, the intercollisional process appears only over a very small frequency interval near zero, of the order of the mean collision frequency, and it can in general be readily distinguished from the binary profile which extends over a much greater range of frequencies. 

Note that the above study is performed for a simple system. There exists a large body of literature on the study of diffusion in complex quasi-two-dimensional systems—for example, a collodial suspension. In these systems the diffusion can have a finite value even at long time. Schofield, Marcus, and Rice [17] have recently carried out a mode coupling theory analysis of a quasi-two-dimensional colloids. In this work, equations for the dynamics of the memory functions were derived and solved self-consistently. An important aspect of this work is a detailed calculation of wavenumber- and frequency-dependent viscosity. It was found that the functional form of the dynamics of the suspension is determined principally by the binary collisions, although the mode coupling part has significant effect on the longtime diffusion. 

Paige ME, Harris CB. A generic test of gas phase isolated binary collision theories for vibrational relaxation at liquid state densities based on the rescaling properties of collision frequencies. J Chem Phys 1990 93 3712-3713. 

By using the hard sphere collision model we can compute a collision frequency for three molecules A, B, and C by first computing the stationary concentration of the three possible binary complexes AB, BC, and CA. If we call tab, tbc, and tca the mean lifetime of these binary complexes/ their stationary concentrations are approximately given by... 

Kiss and Welsh and Bosomworth and Gush measured the absorption of the He-Ar and Ne-Ar mixtures. The latter authors vmfied the dominance of binary collisions (less surprising at their lower pressures). Their absorption curves, corrected for the induced emission which is important at low frequencies, yield a function, defined as... 

Newton s law-conversion factor Shear rate Effective shear rate Fictitious transfer coefficient Collision frequency between drops of sizes a and a for a binary collision process based on number concentration... 

At high frequencies or low densities. 4(co) -> 0. In terms of the Fourier variable (0, the collisional friction depends only on the power spectrum < Fp(oj) > of a binary collision so that... 

This asymptotic form is plotted in Fig. 5. A feature of BBM(d>) is that it decreases asymptotically with frequency to zero. If the atom B is involved in vibrational motion at frequency oo (Oq, the coupling with the bath through binary collisions is small and the slow dissipation is the stochastic manifestation of slow vibrational relaxation. The most significant feature of Eq. (3.17) is that the dependence in the exponent of Eq. (3.17) is equivalent to an exponent This is just the form of the Landau-Teller theory of vibration-translation (V-T) energy transfer in atom-diatom collisions, and this form is almost universally used to fit vibrational relaxation rates in such systems. This will be dealt with in more detail in Section V C. The utility of BBM(d>) is that it pertains to atom-atom collisions in which the atom B is bonded to the other atoms by arbitrary potentials. No assumptions have been made about the intramolecular motions, although the use of BBM(d)) implies linear coupling to the displacements of atom B. Grote et al. have alluded to the form of Eq. (3.20) for di = 0 in a footnote. 

To proceed we need to understand, and define in mathematical terms, the fundamental nature of binary collisions. In particular, it is desired to define the relationships between the initial and final velocities, the scattering cross sections, the symmetry properties of the collision, and the collision frequency. 

For species of differing mass and size, the mean free paths, velocities, and collision frequencies will be different. The derivation of the binary diffusivity is more complicated but may be expressed as [28] [74] [5] (sect 17-3) ... 

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