Reaction profile
What Reaction profile means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A curve on which activation energy is shown as the vertical gap from the reactant energy level up to the peak.
A graph of energy against the progress of a reaction, also called an energy level diagram.
A graph showing the relative energies of reactants and products, the activation energy and the overall energy change of a reaction.
Topics that use Reaction profile
- Energy transfer during exothermic and endothermic reactions (AQA GCSE)
- Reaction profiles (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Exothermic and endothermic reactions
- Activation energy
- Bond breaking and bond making
- Catalyst
- Collision theory
- Collisions
- Conservation of energy
- Energy level diagrams
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