Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1987, 52, 1-5
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19870001
The first passage time to the equilibrium state of a first order reaction
Milan Šolc
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague 6
Abstract
The first passage time to the state of exact equilibrium (the most probable stationary state) for a first order reaction is described in terms of the probability density and the first and second moments. For large systems, the first moment is proportional to the logarithm of the number of particles in the system, while the dispersion is independent of the size of the system.
