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Why does increasing temperature generally increase the rate of a chemical reaction?

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They collide more and increase kinetic energy

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If the temperature is increased: the reactant particles move more quickly. More particles have the activation energy or greater. The particles collide more often, and more of the collisions result in a reaction.

As you increase the temperature the rate of reaction increases. As a rough approximation, for many reactions happening at around room temperature, the rate of reaction doubles for every 10°C rise in temperature.

So the rate of reaction increases as we increase the temperature.

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