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- Answer: B<br />

- -The answer would be letter B because as mentioned previously, what changes the rate of a<br />

reaction is either a change, either rise or decrease in temperature or also an increase or<br />

decrease in the pressure.<br />

- - Letters C and D talk about increasing temperature or an increase in pressure, but because<br />

this question is asking about what a catalyst does to a chemical reaction, these are not the<br />

answers, the answer is B because that is what a catalyst does.<br />

- -The definition of a catalyst is literally “a substance that increases the rate or a chemical<br />

reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change” and because of this letter<br />

B would be the correct answer choice.<br />

- Activation energy is a barrier that reactants must go through before products form<br />

- Lowering it will allow the catalyst it take charge to begin the speeding process at a much<br />

farther rate if the activation energy was risen<br />

-<br />

8 Which reaction diagram shows the effect of using the appropriate catalyst in a chemical reaction?<br />

A<br />

C<br />

B<br />

D<br />

- Answer D<br />

- The answer is Graph D because the catalyst added to one of the lines is lower, and this is<br />

because the catalyst lowered the rate necessary for the reaction to happen.<br />

- The other graphs have some other types of changes but none of them show what a catalyst<br />

would do to the slope of a graph.<br />

- Letters A and C don’t make sense because they fluctuate more than once as if the energy<br />

lowered then peaked, then lowered again, yet raised back up then down, this would only<br />

happen if there were two reactions happening.<br />

9 H2O2, hydrogen peroxide, naturally breaks down into H2O and O2 over time. MnO2, manganese<br />

dioxide, can be used to lower the energy of activation needed for this reaction to take place and, thus,<br />

increase the rate of reaction. What type of substance is MnO2?<br />

A a catalyst<br />

B an enhancer<br />

C an inhibitor<br />

D a reactant<br />

- Answer: A<br />

- The answer would be letter a because MnO2 is speeding up the reaction, and a catalyst is<br />

what does that.<br />

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