Imagine you are in a laboratory. You are exploring the following reaction: A + B → C When the product C is created, bubbles form. When 10mL of A is added to 10mL of B, the reaction takes twenty seconds. Your teacher gives you three unknown substances (X, Y, and Z), one of which is a catalyst for the reaction. Design an experiment to test substances X, Y, and Z to determine which one is a catalyst for the reaction.

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Kamora Brown

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Imagine you are in a laboratory. You are exploring the following reaction: A + B → C When the product C is created, bubbles form. When 10mL of A is added to 10mL of B, the reaction takes twenty seconds. Your teacher gives you three unknown substances (X, Y, and Z), one of which is a catalyst for the reaction. Design an experiment to test substances X, Y, and Z to determine which one is a catalyst for the reaction.

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Trent Chung · Answer 1

A + B + X - - > C

A + B + Y - - > C

A + B + Z - - > C

The reaction that produces C much faster than our original reaction A + B - - > C will be our catalyst. The reason being that one of the substances will increase the rate of the chemical reaction.

Reese Pena · Answer 2

Ok so in this experiment what we want to find is the catalyst for the reaction. Our original reaction is the following. A + B - - > C, therefore to find which of the unknown substances (X, Y, and Z) is the catalyst reaction we simply have to do the following:

A + B + X - - > C

A + B + Y - - > C

A + B + Z - - > C

The reaction that produces C much faster than our original reaction A + B - - > C will be our catalyst. The reason being that one of the substances will increase the rate of the chemical reaction.