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[yakuza]

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I read on the premed forums that the Rate of a reaction is affected by pressure? Can someone explain this

 

[TeamGuo]

wouldn't it be if you increase pressure, then your volume would decrease, so under high pressure and small volume there's going to be more fruitful collisions between molecules.

Hence, reaction rate would increase.

I have a feeling there's an exception to this logic tho... hope not

 

[ZenoVT]

If the volume does not change then increasing pressure would increase the Temperature which does increase reaction rate.