3. Glossary

Stall; jump

Abrupt change in a thermodynamic variable (temperature, partial pressure) during a reaction progress monitoring experiment.

Rate-determining step

An elementary step in a mechanism whose rate constants have finite values while those of the other steps are infinite, and which imposes its speed on the reaction.

Étape élémentaire; elementary step

Reaction stage in which no intermediate species are likely to be formed that can be detected by any experiment.

Mécanisme réactionnel; reaction mechanism

A set of elementary steps describing the course of a reaction process, a linear combination of which corresponds to the balance equation of the overall reaction.

Thermogravimetry; thermogravimétrie...