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The three necessary things for a collision to occur:
1. Reactants have to collide
2. Have to collide in the correct orientation
3. Have to collide with enough energy
What affects the rate of reaction?
Temperature
The higher the temperature, the faster Catalysts
the reactants move and the more Catalysts are third party particles that, when
energy the will have. This means there put into a reaction area, can greatly speed
will be more particles with activation up the rate of reaction per unit time by
energy as well as being faster, this leads making the collisions occur more often and
to more often and successful collisions more successfully by lowing the activation
per unit time. energy needed for the reaction to occur.
Pressure Concentration
Surface area If you increase the
In a higher pressurized When there is a larger surface area, there
environment, there are concentration there will be
are more reactants with which to collide. more often collisions
more particles for a given There will be more places for collisions to
volume. The reactant will because there are more
occur. With a larger space for reactions particles in the same
move faster and collide to occur there will be more collisions
more often also increasing volume; therefore,
which increases the rate of reaction per increasing the rate of
the rate of reaction per unit time.
unit time reaction per unit time.
Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
A Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution is a probability distribution used
for describing the speeds of various particles within a stationary
container at a specific temperature; in short, it shows the number of
molecules per unit speed. The distribution is often represented with
a graph, with the y-axis defined as the number of molecules and the
x-axis defined as the speed
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