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    According to collision theory, a chemical reaction occurs when reactant molecules collide. While collision frequency may be high, the reaction rate is lower because not all collisions result in reaction. For a collision to be reactive, the molecules must have sufficient kinetic energy, called the threshold energy, and proper orientation to overcome energy and orientation barriers and undergo the chemical process. A graph shows that at ordinary temperatures and pressures, not all molecules will possess the threshold energy required for an effective collision.

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    According to collision theory, a chemical reaction occurs when reactant molecules collide. While collision frequency may be high, the reaction rate is lower because not all collisions result in reaction. For a collision to be reactive, the molecules must have sufficient kinetic energy, called the threshold energy, and proper orientation to overcome energy and orientation barriers and undergo the chemical process. A graph shows that at ordinary temperatures and pressures, not all molecules will possess the threshold energy required for an effective collision.

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    Threshold Energy

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    Anubhav Swaroop
    According to collision theory, a chemical reaction occurs when reactant molecules collide. While collision frequency may be high, the reaction rate is lower because not all collisions result in reaction. For a collision to be reactive, the molecules must have sufficient kinetic energy, called the threshold energy, and proper orientation to overcome energy and orientation barriers and undergo the chemical process. A graph shows that at ordinary temperatures and pressures, not all molecules will possess the threshold energy required for an effective collision.

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    Threshold energy According to the collision theory a reaction takes place when there is a collision between the reacting

    molecules. Though the collision frequency (number of collision taking place per second) may be high enough (10 24-26) the reaction rate may not be high, That if this large collision frequency reaction should go to completion if all the colliding molecules are taking part in the reaction but because all the molecules that are colliding do not take part in the reaction, in actual practice there are two type of barrier to the colliding molecule to take part in the chemical reaction. The first kind of barrier is called energy factor and the other is the orientation factor. Energy factor explains that all the molecules which are colliding do not take part in the reaction but only those molecules which have a particular amount of kinetic energy and proper orientation can take part in the chemical process. The minimum kinetic energy which the colliding molecules must have in order that collision between them may be effective is called the threshold energy. At ordinary temperature and pressure all the molecules may not possess equal to or greater than the threshold energy. This is explained in the graph.

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