Nitroglycerine is an extremely sensitive explosive. In a series of carefully controlled experiments, samples of the explosive were heated to 160 °C and their first-order decomposition studied. Determine the average rate constants for each experiment using the following data:
| Initial [C3H5N3O9] (M) | 4.88 | 3.52 | 2.29 | 1.81 | 5.33 | 4.05 | 2.95 | 1.72 |
| t (s) | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 | 180 | 180 | 180 | 180 |
| % Decomposed | 52.0 | 52.9 | 53.2 | 53.9 | 34.6 | 35.9 | 36.0 | 35.4 |
OpenStax Chemistry 2e, 12.4 Integrated Rate Laws, exercise 17