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Topic: Drawing an energy profile when the coefficients in the equation are halved  (Read 1454 times)

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Offline ajax0604

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A question initially asks you to draw an energy profile given the thermochemical equation. Then it asks you to sketch another profile if all the coefficients in the equation are halved. I understand that the change in enthalpy would halve but what would happen to the activation energy? Would that halve also or stay the same as before?

Offline mjc123

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Halve also. Simply shrink the whole y axis by a factor of 2.

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