How Does Temperature Affect The Rate Of Reaction

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The purpose of this investigation is to investigate how one variable (temperature in this experiment) will affect the rate of a chemical reaction. The rate of any chemical reaction always depends on the reactant concentrations, surface area of reactants and the temperature. To begin with, the surface area of reactant impacts on the reaction time is because the rate of the surface area depends on how much surface area is exposed to the conduction; for example, if there is a cube of sugar, and a pile of sugar flower of the same mass as the cubes, the powder will always dissolve faster than the sugar cubes in water if the temperature are the same, this is because the sugar cube need to dissolve the outside of the layer of sugar before the inside sugar is exposed to water; therefore the more surface area, the faster the reaction, conversely, the less surface area, the slower the reaction. Furthermore, the concentration of reactant also affects the reaction rate, this is because chemical reactions must have contact or collision of particles in order to create reaction, therefore the greater the concentration of the reactant is, the greater collision would happen in each second, which therefore increases the rate of reaction. Lastly, temperature …show more content…

Throughout the experiment the reaction time of the reactants will be recorded under different temperature environments. The hypothesis of this experiment is that the reaction rate of the reactants will increase as the temperature increases which means that the reaction time would be shorter (faster) as the temperature increases. To justify the accuracy of the hypothesis, the chemical equation of the experiment was examined and studied to predict the products after the chemical reaction; the chemical equation

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