Heating up a reaction increases the speed of a reaction until the enzyme denatures.
<h3>What is enzyme denaturation?</h3>
Enzyme denaturation occurs when a biological protein catalyst does not work anymore due to a high temperature that alters its tridimensional conformation.
This cellular process (denaturation) is well known to be one of the main causes of enzymatic failure.
In conclusion, heating up a reaction increases the speed of a reaction until the enzyme denatures.
The heat of neutralization is the heat that evolved when an acid and a base react to a form a salt plus water. Neutralization reactions are generally exothermic and is negative.
