The study of the simple, integrable reactions has been helpful in suggesting ways of estimating @ before any experimental data are at hand. For a simple first-order reaction, good fits are obtained when 4 lies somewhere between 2 n and 2.5n.Similarly, for second-order reactions of the A + A type, good fits are obtained with values of $ lying between 7n and 9n.Second-order reactions of the A + B type lie between these two cases. When the initial ratio of B to A (&,/ao in Figure 5)