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What happens to a chemical reaction when the temperature is increased ?

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It starts or speeds up.
Some substances need certain amount of energy in order to react with each other.

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The rate of reaction speeds up because the particles are moving faster. Therefore there are more collisions and as each particle has more energy, there are more successful collisions
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