There are reactions whose rate is, for all practical purposes, constant for a certain time interval. One such example is the unimolecular decomposition that takes place on the surface of a tungsten filament at high temperatures
The reaction speed is constant, say 
, and the evolution
equations are
Following the definition of reaction rate given before, we
should call the reaction above a zero 
-order reaction.
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