INCREASING

REACTION RATES
The complete guide to exploding things much faster.

SURFACE AREA& TEMPERATURE

The bigger your surface area, the better.

There's a reason why medicines are given in the

form of pressed powders(tablets). Bigger surface
area allows whatever you're going to react together
get to know each other much faster. Larger surface
area allows more exposure of your material to the
other material. The hotter the material, the faster the reaction will be.

Let's just take an example from our own body. When it's cold
outside, we tend to slouch around and be lazy. Same goes with
reactions. Hotter temperature increases the movement of the
particles, which means more collisions will happen!

PRESSURE&CATALYST
Less space, more collisions. Catalyst as the helper
Pressure allows your materials to be closer to each When we try to go up to another floor, we need stairs to help us
other material. When your materials are closer to get up there faster. Same goes with catalysts. Catalysts help
each other, they will collide more and they will react provide a shorter route for reactions to happen, so we do not
much faster. need to apply much energy to the reactants, and reactions will
still happen faster.

CONCENTRATION

Increase the concentration!

When there are more particles being reacted, the

particles become crowded and it increases the
potential of more collisions to happen.

THE COLLISION THEORY

What even is collision though?

The Collision Theory is the theory that when we want

particles to react, the particles have to collide with
the sufficient amount of energy to create a reaction.
How can we do it faster? Read above!