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What is a homogeneous catalyst?

Posted on March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Catalysts speed up reactions by providing an alternative pathway for the reaction with a lower activation energy, Ea, and the

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Using the Arrhenius equation to find the activation energy for a reaction

Posted on April 17, 2023September 10, 2024 Sarah Parkes

For almost all reactions there is an energy barrier to overcome – this is known as the activation energy, Ea,

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What does the rate of a reaction depend on?

Posted on February 17, 2023March 3, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Just because a reaction is feasible, it doesn’t mean that it will happen at a rate by which we are

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