How does a catalyst speed up a chemical reaction
2 answers:
Answer: by lowering the activation energy.
Explanation:
Activation energy is the extra energy that must be supplied to reactants in order to cross the energy barrier and thus convert to products.
A catalyst is a substance which increases the rate of a reaction by taking the reaction through a different path which involves lower activation energy and thus more molecules can cross the energy barrier and convert to products.
The catalyst itself does not take part in the chemical reaction and is regenerated as such at the end.
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Answer:
1.346 v
Explanation:
1) Fist of all we need to calculate the standard cell potential, one should look up the reduction potentials for the species envolved:
(oxidation) →
E°=0.337 v
(reduction) →
E°=1.679 v
(overall) +8H^{+}_{(aq)}→
E°=1.342 v
2) Nernst Equation
Knowing the standard potential, one calculates the nonstandard potential using the Nernst Equation:
Where 'R' is the molar gas constant, 'T' is the kelvin temperature, 'n' is the number of electrons involved in the reaction and 'F' is the faraday constant.
The problem gives the [red]=0.66M and [ox]=1.69M, just apply to the Nernst Equation to give
E=1.346