Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
How does altering temperature affect the rate of reaction
Member rating: No Rating | Words: | Submitted: Mon Nov 07 2005
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
How does altering temperature affect the rate of reaction Prediction Different reactions can happen at different rates. Reactions that happen slowly have a low rate of reaction and reactions that happen quickly have a high rate of reaction. For a chemical reaction to happen, the reactant particles must collide. In addition, the collision must have enough energy for the particles to react. The minimum energy needed for particles to react is called the activation energy. Many factors affect how fast or slow the reaction takes place. One of these factors is temperature. If the temperature is increased the reactant particles will either speed up or slow down. I predict that if the temperature increases the reaction will happen faster because the particles have been given more kinetic energy. Thus more particles will have the activation energy, so the particles will collide more often and the more collisions there is the more likely...
Get instant access
- Instant, unlimited access to our documents in full
- Swap your work for free access, or pay £4.99
- To see the full version of this document and 150,117 others
