Question

If activationenergy required for a chemical reaction were reduced, what would happen to the rate of the reaction

Answer 1

In order to reduce the activation energy in a chemical reaction. a catalyst is introduced to lower the activation energy of a reaction, so that a chemical reaction can take place. However, by increasing the temperature of a reaction helps the effect in increasing the number of reactant particles that have more energy than the activation energy. Therefore, by reducing the activation energy, the reaction would go faster.