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Conceptualizing Kinetics with Curve Fitting
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This paper describes how to use the Excel "Solver" function for the analysis of kinetics data by nonlinear curve-fitting methods, as an alternative to the traditional linearization methods for zero-, first-, and second-order processes.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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