Why can’t molecularity of any reaction be equal to zero ?

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Molecularity is the number of molecules taking part in an elementary step. For this we require at least a single molecule leading to the value of minimum molecularity of one.

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The reaction $2 NO + Br _2 \rightarrow 2 NOBr$

takes places through the mechanism given below :

$NO + Br _2 \Leftrightarrow NOBr _2 \text { (fast) }$

$NOBr _2+ NO \rightarrow 2 NOBr \text { (slow) }$

The overall order of the reaction is $.....$.

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A reaction is second order with respect to a reactant. How is the rate of reaction affected if the concentration of the reactant is 

$(i)$ doubled

$(ii)$ reduced to half $?$

The order of the reaction occurring by following mechanism should be

$(i)$ ${A_2} \to A + A$ (fast)

$(ii)$ $A + {B_2} \to AB + B$ (slow)

$(iii)$ $A + B \to $ (fast)

For the following reaction scheme (homogeneous), the rate constant has units

$A+B\xrightarrow{K}C$:

Reaction $2A + B \to$  product,  rate law is $\frac{{ - d[A]}}{{dt}}\, = \,K[A].$ At a time when $t\, = \,\frac{{{t_{1/2}}}}{{\ln\,2}},$ concentration of the reactant is