A chemical engineer discovers that two different reactor designs yield identical product distributions despite using distinct catalysts. Which mechanism explains this functional equivalence?

💡 Explanation

The reactors behave identically because a group isomorphism maps the action of one catalyst onto the other, meaning they are structurally equivalent in how they transform reactants. Therefore, the product distributions are the same, rather than the enthalpy or kinetics being identical.

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