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TOPIC: CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CONTENTS:
PERIOD 1: BASIC CONCEPTS: REACTANTS AND PRODUCTS
Chemical reactions can be represented simply on paper by chemical equations involving only formula and symbols e.g.
4NH3(g) + O2(g) → 4NO(g) + 6H2O(g)
Reactants Products
Reaction time: The total time taken for a particular reaction to take place.
Reaction rate: is the number of moles of reactions converted or product formed per unit time. Unit is moldm-3s-1
In all chemical reactions, existing bonds in the particles of the reactants must be broken first before new bonds can be formed to form products. The breakings of bonds require energy. An initial energy input is required to activate the reactant particles. This energy is the activation energy of the reaction. The activation energy of a reaction is equivalent to that energy barrier that must be overcome before bonds are broken to enable the reaction to occur. Hence, activation energy can be defined as the minimum amount of energy required for a reaction can occur. When this activation is acquired by the reactant particles, they form complex particles of high energy content. This complex particle is known as the activated complex. Therefore activated complex is an unstable molecule with high energy contents which gives the product It is unstable because of its high energy content and so will readily decompose to give the products or the reactants, depending on the nature if the reaction.
EVALUATION
Define activation energy.
PERIOD 2: INTRODUCTION TO COLLISION THEORY
The collision theory was developed from the kinetic theory of gases to account for the influence of concentration and temperature on reaction rates. The theory is based on the following postulates:
The collision theory assumes that for a chemical reaction to occur there must be collisions between reactant particles.
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