Equation 1 · Part 4 · How Chemical Dynamics and Catalysis Actually Work
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
A useful way to see why the peak exists at all is the Arrhenius picture underneath it. The observed rate constant is . and a catalyst’s whole job is to substitute a smaller — the barrier of the new surface-mediated path — for the barrier of the uncatalyzed reaction, without introducing a rate-limiting binding or release step that reintroduces a large barrier somewhere else in the cycle.
Learn the underlying idea
An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] From the Sabatier principle to a predictive theory of transition-metal heterogeneous catalysis ↗
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