This paper describes how to use the Excel "Solver" function for the analysis of kinetics data by nonlinear curve-fitting methods, as an alternative to the traditional linearization methods for zero-, first-, and second-order processes.
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The spreadsheet file, Curvefit.xls, is an Excel template (Excel 5.0c for Windows) and has been compressed as a sit file for Macintosh and a zip file for Windows. The figure can be viewed from a pdf file, accessed using Acrobat Reader.
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