• DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Temperature is based on “average” kinetic energy so technically there are molecules with higher energy’s that are higher than the transition state and that’s why

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      I always panic a little, envisioning the vast game of pinball we’re constantly wading through, and also not because the sphere atomic model is just shorthand