7. Why would it be difficult to measure the rate of reaction for the rusting of iron?

For rusting, it is difficult to write an equation due to the complexity of the reaction. Thus, we can express the reaction like the following. According to the law of conservation of mass, the increased mass of nail and rust is the amount of oxygen.

Explanation:

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it is to be noted that an alpha particle is an helium nucleus. so it contains 2 protons 2 neutrons and has a mass number of 4. when alpha decay particles are ejected from the nucleus it gets transformed into an atom which has atomic number less than 2 and a mass number less than 4.

an equation that could represent alpha decay is radium 226 decay of alpha particle forms radon 222.

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