Which of the Following is the Study of the Rates

Question

Which of the following is the study of the rates of chemical reactions?
A) kinetics
B) stoichiometry
C) thermodynamics
D) none of these

Accepted Answer

Kinetics is specifically the study of the rates of chemical reactions. Stoichiometry is the study of the quantitative relationships between reactants and products in chemical reactions, and thermodynamics is the study of the energy changes associated with chemical reactions. None of these fully encompass the study of chemical reaction rates in the way that kinetics does.