Explain why chemists often plot versus when testing a proposed mechanism that…

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Explain why chemists often plot log⁡(initial rate)\log(\text{initial rate}) versus log⁡[reactant]\log[\text{reactant}] when testing a proposed mechanism that predicts a specific reaction order with respect to that reactant.

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