As the slowest step is the rate determining step thus the mechanism B will be more consistent with the given information also because it involve one molecule of H₂ and one molecule of ICl it can expressed as r = k [H₂ ][ICl] Which shows that the reaction is first order w.r.t. both H₂ & ICl
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