Chemistry 9th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1133611095
ISBN 13: 978-1-13361-109-7

Chapter 12 - Chemical Kinetics - Questions - Page 593: 19

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Not all reactant-reactant collisions will cause a reaction because the collision energy must be at least as great as the activation energy and the colliding reactants must be at a certain orientation relative to each other for the products to be produced.

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