Raising temperature or lowering Ea affects the rate constant how?
AIt stays the same
BIt rises exponentially
CIt rises linearly
DIt falls linearly
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. It rises exponentially
Because k = A e^(-Ea/RT), both changes make the exponential term larger and k rises exponentially.
Related questions
Chemical equilibrium is reached whenWhich technique studies fast reactions by a sudden temperature or pressure change?The study of reactions initiated by light is calledCrushing a solid reactant speeds a reaction because itIn 1864 Waage and Guldberg published which law?Who received the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for laws of chemical dynamics?Who studied the inversion of sucrose in 1850, pioneering chemical kinetics?The number of collisions per second per unit volume of a reaction mixture is called