The increase in the rate of reaction with temperature is due to
(A) Increase in the number of effective collisions
(B) Decrease in activation energy
(C) Increase in the average kinetic energy of the reacting molecules
(D) None of these

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Answer :

(B) Decrease in activation energy

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