What Factors Affect the Speed of Chemical Reactions?
Kinetics is the study of the speed of a chemical reaction. Some chemical reactions are fast; others are slow. Sometimes chemists want to speed the slow ones up and slow the fast ones down.
There are several factors that affect the speed of a reaction:
Nature of the reactants
Particle size of the reactants
Concentration of the reactants
Pressure of gaseous reactants
Temperature
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