This letter provides an extension of an earlier paper [Scripta Mater 36(199
7)645] on the rate of diffusion-limited reactive wetting, in which the anal
ysis is extended to include the influence of local reaction kinetics, and u
nderlying assumptions are discussed in response to a recent paper by Yost [
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