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involves various stoichiometric coefficients which are larger than 1. For example:
2A + 3B ----> 3C + D
Should the molecularity be 5 in this case for the reactants? The answer is NO.
Because molecularity is defined for elementary reactions only.
Other way to think of it is that molecularity is defined for those processes which actually take place.
But the above stated reaction does not represent the actual process. And one can not talk about
molecularity of such reactions.
In fact based on this argument, it is fairly easy to conclude that if a reaction whose stoichiometric
coefficients add up to a value larger than three, then that reaction has to be a non-elementary one.