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does increasing temperature allow the reaction to increase its rate?
yeah heats those molecules up to move around faster and bump into each other and react
Can anyone explain the thermodynamic vs kinetic pathway of a reaction? Thanks!
Also, isn't Y releasing more heat as an exothermic reaction? If the temperature increases, then wouldn't that push reaction Y backward more than reaction X?
You're confusing thermodynamics with kinetics. Exo- vs. endothermic is thermodynamics. Increasing the rate of a reaction by a temperature increase doesn't affect that. It increases the speed and frequency of collisions and therefore increases the probability that a given collision will have enough energy to reach an activated complex and go over the kinetic barrier.
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Thanks! so the reaction being pushed back or forward when temp changes because of le chatelier when heat is absorbed or released in a reaction is unrelated to kinetic vs thermodynamic concept and I shouldn't really think about those two concepts together?
What if the reaction was like this?