When performing today's experiment, your lab partner decides to add all the reagents into one beaker instead of two separate beakers. after adding everything together and waiting a significant amount of time, you see no reaction occur. what was the problem?

The problem can be an incorrect sequence of reagents added, requirement of heat or proportion of relative reactants when all the reagents simultaneously added into the beaker.

Further  explanation:

The reaction sometimes occurs in a series of elementary reaction which can be described in the reaction mechanism of that particular reaction. So when we added the incorrect sequence of reagents then the reaction may not happen as the way we want.

Some factors which can affect the reaction are as follows:

1. The ratio amount of given reagent may not be correct.

2. Some of the reactions have very slow rate of reactions and thus they required heat to increase the rate of reaction.

3. Sometimes the reagent which is important for the first step can undergo a side reaction with the reagent which should not be there otherwise.

4. That mechanism of reaction may be required light since chemoluminescence reactions depend on excitation of atoms.

5. Sometimes reactants should be mix in dark which can lose their activity in the light.

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Answer details:

Grade: Senior School

Subject: Chemistry

Chapter: Keys to study chemistry

Keywords: Performing experiment, lab partner, add all the reagents into one beaker, two separate beakers, and no reaction occur.