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Thanks for your advice. I have put up a case on IB Answers
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That is a fair point, SusanAs temperature increases, the rate increases; the largest contributor to this change, by some margin, is the shift of the Maxwell-Boltzmann curve, which increases the probability of successful collisions...
R2.2 Rate of reaction & collision theory
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HI, On this, can I confirm that in neutral conditions, they should write half equations using H+/H2O and that they do not need to use H2O/OH- at all when creating half equations (as basic conditions are not part of spec)? Thanks, John
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