Successful vs Unsuccessful Collisions

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💥 Successful vs Unsuccessful Collisions

Two-panel diagram: left panel shows slow particles (blue and red spheres) colliding with insufficient energy — they bounce apart unchanged. Right panel shows fast particles colliding with high energy — golden starburst at impact point, green product particles emerge. GCSE Chemistry revision — collision theory.

Figure 1: Successful collisions (right) require sufficient energy to overcome the activation energy threshold

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