## rate of conversion, $$\dot{\xi}$$

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The rate of conversion for a reaction occurring in a closed system is defined as the time derivative of the @[email protected]: $\overset{\text{.}}{\xi }=\frac{\mathrm{d}\xi }{\mathrm{d}t}$ In view of the definition of @[email protected] it follows that with reference to any species in a reaction showing time-independent @[email protected] $\overset{\text{.}}{\xi }=\frac{\mathrm{d}\xi }{\mathrm{d}t}=\frac{1}{\nu _{i}}\ \frac{\mathrm{d}n_{i}}{\mathrm{d}t}$ where $$n_{i}$$ is the amount of the species at any time and $$\nu _{i}$$ is its @[email protected] @[email protected]
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