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How to speed up chemical reactions (and get a date) - Aaron Sams

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The complex systems of high school dating and chemical reactions may have more in common than you think. Explore five rules for speeding up chemical reactions in the lab that might just land you a date to a dance!

This analogy of a dance representing chemical reactions can help make understanding reactions easier, but it does not represent actual chemical reactions. List three examples of actual chemical reactions and for each example explain how the reaction can be manipulated to increase the reaction rate.

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