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:
0.0177 L of nitrogen will be produced
Explanation:
The decomposition reaction of sodium azide will be:
As per the balanced equation two moles of sodium azide will give three moles of nitrogen gas
The molecular weight of sodium azide = 65 g/mol
The mass of sodium azide used = 100 g
The moles of sodium azide used =
so 1.54 moles of sodium azide will give = mol
the volume will be calculated using ideal gas equation
PV=nRT
Where
P = Pressure = 1.00 atm
V = ?
n = moles = 2.31 mol
R = 0.0821 L atm / mol K
T = 25 °C = 298.15 K
Volume =