Chemical Reaction Kinetics & Catalysis Simulator

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2D Microscopic Reaction Chamber
Reactant A
Reactant B
Product C
Catalyst
Potential Energy Profile (Ea & ΔH Surface)

What the kinetics equations actually assume

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The source rate constant is two point five times exponential of minus effective activation energy divided by R times temperature, with R eight point three one four and activation energy converted from kilojoules to joules. At three hundred fifty kelvin and forty five kilojoules per mole the modeled constant is about four point eight zero six times ten to minus seven. Doubling temperature to seven hundred would change the exponential; it would not merely double the rate. The tool’s configured temperature range remains separate from that illustrative reasoning. When catalyst is enabled the code subtracts sixteen point five kilojoules per mole, with a minimum barrier of five. At base forty five, effective activation energy becomes twenty eight point five. At three hundred fifty kelvin the ratio of catalyzed to uncatalyzed constants is exponential of sixteen thousand five hundred divided by R T, about two hundred ninety point one two. The animated bars compare barrier heights; this fixed shift is a teaching fixture, not a calibrated catalyst material. The modeled rate multiplies k by count A divided by one hundred and count B divided by one hundred. With sixty of each, the concentration factor is zero point three six. Doubling A alone to one hundred twenty would double the factor; doubling both would make it four times larger. These are algebraic illustrations beyond the source slider maximum one hundred, not proposed control inputs. The particle animation and CSV retain this approximate population-based concentration model, without validating a chemical experiment.

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