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Topic 7 - Rates of Reaction and Energy Changes Flashcards

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What is the rate of a reaction?

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How quickly a reaction happens

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How can you observe the rate of reaction?

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How quickly reactants are used up

How quickly products are formed

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What is the rate of reaction equation?

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Rate of Reaction = (Amount of reactant used or amount of product formed) / Time

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What are the experiments to measure the rate of reaction?

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Change in mass
Precipitation
Volume of gass given off

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What is the precipitation experiment?

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Using two see-through solutions to form a precipitate which clouds a mark

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What is the problem with the precipitation experiment?

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Subjective as different people might not agree on exactly when the mark disappears

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How do you measure the rate of reaction that produces a gas?

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By using a mass balance

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8
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When using change in mass to measure the rate of reaction, how do you tell the reaction is finished?

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The mass balance stops changing

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What risks are associated with measuring the volume of gas to calculate the rate of reaction?

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The plunger may be blown out of the syringe if the reaction is too vigorous

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10
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Outline how you could use a mass balance to measure the rate of a reaction where a gas is formed?

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Put a conical flask on a mass balance and add your reactants. As gas is produced from the reaction, measure how quickly the reading on the balance drops until the balance stops changing

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Give one disadvantage of the precipitation method when used to follow the rate of a reaction?

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No quantitive result (except time, no amount of reactant used or product formed)
Subjective meaning different people might not agree on exactly when the mark ‘disappears’

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How can you measure how surface area affects the rate of reaction?

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Add marble chips to dilute HCL and measure the gas released

Each time crunch the chips up more and more, increasing the surface area, whilst keeping the mass the same

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What does finer particles of solid mean?

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A higher rate of reaction

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How can you increase the volume of gas produced in a reaction?

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By increasing the mass of the reactants

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How can you measure how concentration affects the rate of reaction?

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Add marble chips to dilute HCL and measure the gas released

Each time increasing the concentration of acid

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Describe how you could investigate how the surface area of calcium carbonate affects the rate of reaction between calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid?

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Place a measured volume of HCL of a known conc in a conical flask
Add a known mass of calcium carbonate in the form of marble chips
Immediatly add a gas syringe and take readings of the volume of gas produced
Repeat the experiment but with the calcium carbonate crushed

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What reactants are used to investigate the effect of temperature on the rate of reaction?

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Sodium thiosulfate

Hydrochloric acid

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What do sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid react to form?

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A yellow precipitate of sulfur

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Briefly describe the method of investigating temperature and reaction rate

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Measure out fixed volumes of sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid
Heat the reactants to a desired temperature and mix the solutions
Time how long it takes for the precipitation to make the black mark disappear
Repeat experiment at different temperatures

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Briefly describe the method of investigating temperature and reaction rate

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Measure out fixed volumes of sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid
Heat the reactants to a desired temperature and mix the solutions
Time how long it takes for the precipitation to make the black mark disappear
Repeat experiment at different temperatures

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When measuring how surface area affects ROR, what are the control variables?

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The same volume and concentration of acid

The same mass of marble chips

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When measuring how concentration affects ROR, what are the control variables?

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The same mass and surface area of marble chips

The same volume of hydrochloric acid

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23
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What does a higher temperature mean?

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A higher rate of reaction

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Azim carries out an experiment to measure how temperature affects the rate of reaction between sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid
He uses the time taken for a mark underneath the reaction vessel to be obscured as a measure of rate
How would you expect the time taken for the mark to disappear to change as the temperature of the reacting solutions were increases?

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As the temperature of the reacting solutions increases, the time taken for the mark to disappear decreases

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25
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What must particles collide with to react?

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Enough energy

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What does the rate of a chemical reaction depend on?

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The collision frequency of reacting particles

The energy transferrred during a collision

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27
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What is activation energy?

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The minimum energy that particles need to react when they collide, so bonds can be broken and a reaction can start

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The more collisions, the ____ the rate of reaction

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The more collisions, the higher the rate of reaction

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29
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What are the three factors that affect the rate of reaction?

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Temperature
Concentration
Surface Area

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30
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How does temperature affect the ROR?

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Increasing the temperature will:
Cause particles to move faster causing a higher frequency of collisions therefore the ROR will increase
Give particles more energy causing a higher frequency of successful collisions therefore the ROR will increase

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How does concentration affect the ROR?

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Increasing the concentration will:
Mean there are more particles of reactant in the same volume meaning collision are more likely therefore the ROR will increase

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How does pressure affect the ROR?

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Increasing the pressure will:

Mean particles are more crowded meaning there will be a higher frequency of collisions therefore the ROR will increase

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How does surface area affect the ROR?

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Increasing the surface area will:
Mean there is more area for collisions to take place meaning there will be a higher frequency of collisions therefore the rate of collisions will increase

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34
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What does an increased frequency of collisions lead to?

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An increased number of sucessful collisions

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35
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Describe the two factors, in terms of collisions, that affect the rate of reaction

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The energy transferred during a collisions must exceed the activation energy
The collisions frequency

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36
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Explain why breaking a solid reactant into smaller pieces increases the rate of reaction

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Breaking a solid into smaller pieces will increases the surface area to volume ratio meaning there will be a more area for reactions to take place meaning the frequency of collisions will speed up therefore the number of sucessful collisions will increase

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37
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What is a catalyst?

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A substance which increases the rate of a reaction without being chemically changed or used up

38
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Does a catalyst have an affect on the chemical equation?

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No it will have no affect on the products or reactants

39
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What is good about a catalyst?

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It isnt used up meaning you only need a tiny bit to catalyse large amounts of reactants

40
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How do catalysts work?

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By lowering the activation energy by providing an alternative reaction pathway that has a lower activation energy

41
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What are enzymes?

A

Biological catalysts

42
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What are enzymes used for?

A

Respiration
Photosynthesis
Protein Synthesis

43
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What do reaction profiles show?

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The energy levels of the reactants and the products in a reaction

44
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What do enzymes in fermentation do?

A

Catalyse the reaction that converts sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide

45
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The decomposition of hydrogen peroxide can be catalysed by manganese dioxide
Explain why only a small amount of manganese dioxide is needed for the catalysis of this reaction, even when starting with a large quantity of hydrogen peoxide

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Catalysts are not used up or chemically changed in a reaction meaning you can use a small amount to catalyse a large quantity of reactant

46
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What is an exothermic reaction?

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A reaction which gives out energy to the surroundings, usually in the form of heat and usually shown by a rise in temperature of the surroundings

47
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What is an endothermic reaction?

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A reaction which takes in energy from the surroundings, usually in the form of heat and usually shown by a fall in temperature of the surroundings

48
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How can you tell if a reaction is exothermic?

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There is a rise in the surrounding temperature

49
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How can you tell if a reaction is endothermic?

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There is a decrease in the surrounding temperature

50
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What will a exothermic reaction profile look like?

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The products will be at a lower energy than the reactants and the difference in height will represent the energy given out in the reaction

51
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What will a endothermic reaction profile look like?

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The products will be at a higher energy than the reactants and the difference in height will represent the energy taken in during the reaction

52
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What is the activation energy on a reaction profile?

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The difference between the peak and the reactant energy

53
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A student carries out an experiment which results in a change in temperature of the reaction mixture.
They notice the reactants have less energy than the products, explain whether what type of reaction this must be?

A

Endothermic as the products have gained energy from the surroundings

54
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How do you measure the temperature change because of a reaction?

A

Put a polystyrene cup into a beaker of cotton wool
Add a known volume of a reagent to the cup and measure the inital temperature of the solution
Add a measured mass of the second reagant and stir
Record the maximum and minimum temperature and then calculate the temperature change

55
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Why is cotton wool used in measuring temperature change?

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Because it gives insulation to help limit energy transfer to or from the reaction mixture

56
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Why is a lid put on the apparatus when measuring temperature change?

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To reduce energy lost by evaporation

57
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What type of reaction is dissolving salt in water?

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Endothermic and exothermic

58
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What type of reaction is neutralisation?

A

Mostly exothermic

59
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What type of reaction is endothermic?

A

Exothermic

60
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What type of reaction is precipitation?

A

Exothermic

61
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When measuring the temperature change of a reaction, why is it important to put the polystyrene cup in a beaker of cotton wool and to keep a lid on the cup?

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They help to insulate the reaction mixture, limiting the energy transferred to or from the surroundings and by evapouration

62
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What must be supplied during a reaction?

A

Energy must be supplied

63
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What actually happens in a chemical reaction?

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Old bonds are broken and new bonds are formed

64
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What type of process is bond breaking?

A

Endothermic

65
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What type of process is bond building?

A

Exothermic

66
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Describe the energy from bond change for a endothermic reaction

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More energy is used to break bonds than released by forming the bonds

67
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Describe the energy from bond change for a exothermic reaction

A

More energy is released by forming bonds than used to break bonds

68
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How do you remember the overall energy change equation?

A

Break and Entering

Broken - Erected

69
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What is the energy change equation?

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Energy change = Energy required to break bonds - Energy released by forming bonds

70
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What is a positive energy change?

A

An endothermic reaction

71
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What type of energy change is for an endothermic reaction?

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A positive

72
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What is a negative energy change?

A

An exothermic reaction

73
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What type of energy change is for an exothermic reaction?

A

A negative

74
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Using the bond energy values below, calculate the energy change for the following reaction, where hydrogen and chorine react to product hydrogen chloride

H-H 436
Cl-CL 242
H-Cl 431

A

H2 + Cl2 ->2HCl
H-H + Cl-Cl -> 2H-Cl

436 + 242 -> 862
678 - 862 = -184

75
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N2 + 3H2 -> 2NH3
N=N 941
H-H 436
N-H 391
Calculate the overall energy change for the forward reaction
A

941 + 3(436) = 2249
6(391) = 2346

2249 - 2346 = -97

76
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A student carries out a reaction which produces CO2
He collects the CO2 in a gas syringe
How will he know when the reaction has finished

A

The gas syringe stops moving (changing volume)

77
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Explain how you could follow the ROR where two colourless solutions react to form a precipitate

A

Add solutions to conical flask above a mark that you can see from the birds eye view
Time how long it takes for the mark to disappear

78
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When undergoing the precipitation reaction to measure the ROR, why must the solutions be colourless?

A

So you can see the mark before the reaction has begun

79
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How does the rate of the reaction between sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid change with temperature?

A

Increases

As particles have more energy meaning more sucessful collisions whilst also moving more meaning more collisions

80
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Describe how you would find the rate of reaction from a straight line graph?

A

Find the gradient

81
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What effect will raising the temperature have on the ROR?

A

Increase the ROR

82
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What effect will raising the temperature have on the time taken for a reaction?

A

Decrease it

83
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What graph is the graph showing temperature and time taken for a reaction?

A

The inverse proportion graph

84
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How does concentration affect the rate of reaction?

A

Increases the rate of reaction

As there will be more reactants meaning there will be a higher frequency of collisions

85
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In a gaseous reaction, why would a decrease in pressure result in a slower rate of reaction?

A

Because less pressure means the particles are less packed together meaning there will be less collisions therefore there will be a slower rate of reaction

86
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What effect does a catalyst have on the activation energy needed for a reaction to take place?

A

The catalyst lowers the activation energy

87
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Give two examples of reactions catalysed by enzymes

A 
Any two from:
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Protein synthesis
Digestion
88
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What change in temperature would you expect to observe in an exothermic reaction?

A

Increase in surroundings

89
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Describe how you could measure the temperature changes in a neutralisation reaction?

A

Put polysteryene cup into beaker of cotton wool
Add known volume of alkali and acid and put lid on
Measure temperature change

90
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Is energy required for the breaking of bonds or the forming of bonds?

A

The breaking of bonds

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