What is the effect of temperature on the rate constant of a reaction?

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What is the effect of temperature on the rate constant of a reaction? How can this temperature effect on rate constant be represented quantitatively?

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answered Dec 21, 2017 by mdsamim (213,225 points) 5 10 15
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The rate constant is nearly doubled with a rise in temperature by 10° for a chemical reaction.
The temperature effect on the rate constant can be represented quantitatively by Arrhenius
equation,

where, k is the rate constant,
A is the Arrhenius factor or the frequency factor, R is the gas constant, T is the temperature, and Ea is the energy of activation for the reaction

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