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How to speed up chemical reactions (and get a date) - Aaron Sams

2012-06-18

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The complex systems of high school dating and chemical reactions may have more in common than you think. Explore five rules for speeding up chemical reactions in the lab that might just land you a date to a dance!

Lesson by Mark Paricio & Aaron Sams, animation by Cognitive Media.


shrink the size of the hallways
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increasing the number of particles available for collision
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increasing the temperature of the reaction mixture higher
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breaking up the clumps into individual particles
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