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- the tail to the left will be longer. The
- Boltzmann distribution gives a
- statistical spread of the speeds of the
- particles. This information is useful
- because all reactions depend on the
- number of high energy particles in
- the system. The higher the temperature,
- the more high energy particles are
- present, and, generally, the faster
- the reaction will proceed.
- Equation (3) indicates that the
- average velocity of the gas particles
- depends on the temperature of the sample.
- Since kinetic energy depends on velocity,
- kinetic energy must also depend on the
- velocity of the particles in the sample:
- the higher the temperature, the more
- kinetic energy the sample has. In other
- words, the temperature of the sample provides a
- measure of the kinetic energy of the sample.
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