Practice question · True or false
Raising the temperature speeds a reaction mainly by making molecules collide more often.
Hints
- Compare the rise in collision frequency with the rise in the fraction above .
- The Boltzmann factor is exponential.
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False
Why
False. Collision frequency rises only with , a few percent for a 10 K rise, while the fraction of molecules exceeding the activation energy rises exponentially through the Boltzmann factor. That exponential term is what roughly doubles many rates for every 10 K, not the extra collisions.
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