Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)
Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Introduction: Activation energy is defined as the minimum amount of energy that is required to initiate a chemical reaction. An input of activation energy is required by many reactions to begin. Both the energy-releasing and energy-requiring reactions have activation energy and the amount of energy varies with the reaction.

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