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Suppose you were dissolving a metal such as zinc with hydrochloric acid

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So are you asking how would the particle size of the zinc affect the rate of its dissolution?
you must now that the bigger the particle the lesser the dissolution.
The reaction rate will go as the total surface area, therefore, the smaller the particles the faster the reaction.
This relationship is NOT linear.
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