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A18.

How do changes in temperature affect the rate of a reaction?

The chemical system used in section A18.1b is used again in order to study the effect of
temperature on the rate of a reaction.

The effect of change in temperature on chemical reactions is an everyday experience. We


put a cake in the oven in order to speed up desirable chemical changes and we put milk in
the refrigerator in order to slow down undesirable chemical changes.

The effect of an increase in temperature on the rates of several chemical reactions was
referred to in the previous section and it may be appropriate to revise this by one or two
simple demonstrations. The reaction between sodium thiosulphate and hydrochloric acid is
easily studied by the pupils themselves.

What is the effect of temperature on the rate of reaction?

Procedure

Practical details are given in Experimental sheet 74. It may be appropriate to discuss ‘ways
and means’ before practical work is started.

Some pupils may require assistance with the two graphs mentioned in the Experiment sheet-
through a confusion of temperature, and times.

Experiment sheet 74.

The method for this experiment is the same as that for Experiment 73, except that in this
case the concentrations of the reacting solutions are kept constant and the temperature of
the mixture is varied.

Mix 10 cm3 sodium thiosulphate solution with 40 cm 3 water in a 100 cm3 beaker, and stand
the beaker over the cross on the sheet of white paper. Add 5 cm 3 hydrochloric acid, with
stirring, start the stop-clock, and read the temperature of the mixture. Note the time for the
cross to disappear.

Repeat the above procedure but this time heat the diluted sodium thiosulphate solution to
just above 30°C before adding hydrochloric acid. Note temperature and time as before. Then
find the times required for temperatures of about 40 °C, 50 °C, and 60 °C.

Results

In each case, use a reaction mixture of 10 cm 3 sodium thiosulphate solution, 40 cm3 of


water, and 5 cm3 hydrochlloric acid.
Plot graphs of:

1. Temperature (vertical axis) against time (horizontal axis)

2. Temperature (vertical axis) against 1/t (horizontal axis).

What do you learn from these graphs?

Apparatus

Each pair of pupils will need:

Experiment sheet 74

Conical flask, 100 cm3

Measuring cylinder, 100 cm3

Measuring cylinder, 25 cm3

2 beakers, 100 cm3

Stop-clock or view of laboratory clock with a seconds hand

Thermometer, -10 to+110 x 1°C

Bunsen burner and heat resistant mat

Tripod and gauze

Sheet of white paper

Graph paper

2.0M hydrochloric acid, about 40 cm3

Sodium thiosulphate solution, containing 37 g per dm 3 (about 0.15M), about 60 cm3

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