How Does Temperature Affect The Rate Of Hypochloric Acid

This experiment was carried out in order to determine how temperature, concentration and catalysts affect the rate of the decomposing hypochlorite ion. While sodium hypochlorite does decompose naturally and on its own it does so quite slowly, and as a result, is a perfect example to be observed for increases in the rate of its decomposition reaction.
It is theorized that the temperature and the rate of the reaction are directly proportional, as in as the temperature increases, so to does the rate of reaction and vice versa. This theory occurs under the knowledge that temperature affects both the collision frequency and the number of effective collisions in a reaction causing them to increase as it does. This occurs due to the fact that as temperature increases the kinetic energy, and thus the speed of the particles, increases. Subsequently, as the kinetic energy in the particles increase, the number of times the particles make contact, and have sufficient speed, grow allowing the rate of the reaction to increase. As a result, three different temperatures have been tested, one at room temperature, one at approximately 71oC, and another at roughly -4oC.

One can understand how this would occur seeing as, as the concentration increases, the amount of the reactant in a specific area simultaneously rises. Consequently, the collision frequency of the reaction would escalate as there is more of the reactant in a specific area to collide and possibly cause an effective collision. In order to prove this two tests were done, both at room temperature, but with one slightly more diluted than the