First-Order Rate Constant Quantity and Units

FirstOrderRateConstant is a derived quantity. Definitions are provided in namespace firstOrderRateConstant. The base quantity defines derived quantity type OnePerSecondClass and Variable FirstOrderRateConstant, Constant FirstOrderRateConstantConstant, and VariableVector FirstOrderRateConstantVector.

The Dimension of FirstOrderRateConstant is $(0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0)$ .

FirstOrderRateConstant defines the following Units:

OnePerSecond (composed) and prefix variants
OnePerMinute (composed)

The default unit is OnePerSecond. The default name in the base quantity is `first-order rate constant', and the default symbol is `k'. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

The first-order rate constant is a physical quantity that is used in chemical kinetics.

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