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Why do hotter solutions react faster

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Increasing the temperature increases reaction rates because of the disproportionately large increase in the number of high energy collisions. It is only these collisions (possessing at least the activation energy for the reaction) which result in a reaction.

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Answer: the faster moving molecules in the warm reactants hit each other with more energy and so are more likely to react.

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