How to Approach a Case of Electrocatalysis

The circumstances of the last two examples should give rise to a maximum of rate at an intermediate strength of bonding of the surface radical when the r.d.s. is still discharged directly 

The former term refers to a mathematical technique and the latter term has an obvious origin, referring to what some think as the ovemse of a d(ln j)/dTj in the determination of the whole mechanism. 

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