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Unit 12 vocab
chem
| Activated complex | a temporary product that may reform reactants or form new products |
| Activation energy | the amount of energy needed to form the activated complex from the reactant |
| Catalyst | a substance that speeds up a reactants without being used up in the process |
| Collision theory | Atoms,ions, and molecules must collide with one another in order to react and form products |
| Entropy | a measure of the randomness and disorder of a system |
| equilibrium | when the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal |
| Le chateliers principle | when a stress is applied to a system in dynamic equilibrium the system shifts in a direction that relieves stress |
| Potential energy diagram | a diagram that illustrates the potential energy change that occuring during a reaction |
| stress | a disturbance in a system |