Chemistry A-Level
Effect on collision frequency and successful collisions
What Effect on collision frequency and successful collisions means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Because the activation energy is lower, a greater proportion of collisions has energy at or above the activation energy, so more frequent successful collisions occur and the rate rises.
Topics that use Effect on collision frequency and successful collisions
- Reaction rates (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Activation energy
- Alternative reaction pathway
- Boltzmann distribution
- Catalysis and activation energy
- Catalyst examples
- Catalyst regenerated and not consumed
- Catalyst regenerated in the mechanism
- collision frequency
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