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Factors Influencing Rate of a Reaction

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CBSE: Class 12

Key Points: Factors Influencing Rate of Reaction

The rate of a reaction depends on:

Factor Effect on Rate
Concentration of reactants Higher conc. → more collisions → higher rate
Temperature Higher T → more energetic collisions → higher rate
Physical state and surface area Greater surface area → higher rate
Catalyst Lowers activation energy → higher rate
Pressure (gaseous reactions) Higher pressure → higher rate
Light / electromagnetic radiation Provides energy for photochemical reactions

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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

The rate of reaction is concerned with decrease in the concentration of reactants or increase in the concentration of products per unit of time. It can be expressed as instantaneous rate at a particular instant of time and average rate over a large interval of time. A number of factors such as temperature, concentration of reactants, catalyst affect the rate of reaction. Mathematical representation of rate of a reaction is given by rate law:

Rate = k[A]x [B]y

x and y indicate how sensitive the rate is to change in concentration of A and B. Sum of x + y gives the overall order of a reaction.
When a sequence of elementary reactions gives us the products, the reaction is called complex reaction. Molecularity and order of an elementary reaction are same. Zero-order reactions are relatively uncommon but they occur under special conditions. All natural and artificial radioactive decay of unstable nuclei takes place by first-order kinetics.

  1. What is the effect of temperature on the rate constant of a reason?    [1]
  2. For a reaction \[\ce{A + B → Product}\], the rate law is given by, Rate = k[A]2 [B]1/2. What is the order of the reaction?    [1]
  3. How order and molecularity are different for complex reactions?    [1]
  4. A first-order reaction has a rate constant 2 × 10–3 s–1. How long will 6 g of this reactant take to reduce to 2 g?    [2]
    OR
    The half-life for radioactive decay of 14C is 6930 years. An archaeological artifact containing wood had only 75% of the 14C found in a living tree. Find the age of the sample.
    [log 4 = 0.6021, log 3 = 0.4771, log 2 = 0.3010, log 10 = 1]    [2]
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