Why does increasing the temperature of a chemical reaction generally increase the rate of the reaction?

What will be an ideal response?


Increasing the temperature increases the kinetic energy of the reactants, causing the molecules to interact more frequently and with sufficient speed to overcome the activation energy of the reaction.

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