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Catalysts On Reaction Rate

Catalysts increase the rate of chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy of the reaction. Catalysts are not consumed during the reaction and a small amount can affect a large amount of reactants. Catalysts do not change the equilibrium of a reaction. Adding a catalyst provides an alternative reaction pathway that has a lower activation energy, allowing reactions to occur more frequently and increasing the overall rate.

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Catalysts On Reaction Rate

Catalysts increase the rate of chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy of the reaction. Catalysts are not consumed during the reaction and a small amount can affect a large amount of reactants. Catalysts do not change the equilibrium of a reaction. Adding a catalyst provides an alternative reaction pathway that has a lower activation energy, allowing reactions to occur more frequently and increasing the overall rate.

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CATALYSTS ON REACTION

RATE
CATALYSTS REACTION RATE

• It is a substance that help • It is the speed at which a


the reactants in a chemical chemical reaction takes
reaction reacts with each place. It tells how fast a
other faster but in the end of given amount of a reactant
the reaction it is chemically or product changes with
unchanged. time.
Generally, catalysts alter the mechanism of
the reaction in a substantial way such the
new barriers along the reaction coordinate
are significantly lower.
FOUR CRITERIA MUST BE
SATISFIED FOR SOMETHING TO
BE CLASSIFIED A CATALYST:
• Catalysts increase the rate of reaction.
• Catalysts are not consumed by the reaction.
• A small quantity of catalyst should be able to affect the rate
of reaction for the large amount of reactant.
• Catalyst do not change the equilibrium constant for the
reaction.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTIVATION ENERGY
• Collisions only result in a reaction if the particles collide with the certain minimum
energy called activation energy for the reaction . The position of activation energy
can be determined from a on Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution:
• To increase the rate of a reaction , the number of successful collisions must be
increased. One possible way of doing this is to provide an alternative pathway for
the reaction to happen which has a lower activation energy. In other words to move
the activation energy on the left on the graph:
• Adding a catalyst has this effect on the activation energy. A catalyst provides an
alternative route for the reaction with a lower activation energy. This is illustrated on
the following energy profile:
ACTIVITY

• PERFORM THE EXPERIMENT AND OBSERVE THE


CHANGES THAT WILL HAPPEN .
MATERIALS

• Hydrogen peroxide
• Graduated cylinder
• Conical flask
• Manganese dioxide
PROCEDURE

• Measure 25 milliliters of hydrogen peroxide by using a graduated


cylinder.
• Pour the measured compound into a clean conical flask.
• Add the same amount of hydrogen peroxide into another conical flask.
• Add the black powder of manganese dioxide gradually into the first
flask only.
• Compare the differences.

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