ENERGY OF ACTIVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does energy of activation mean? 

• ENERGY OF ACTIVATION (noun)
  The noun ENERGY OF ACTIVATION has 1 sense:

1. the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur

  Familiarity information: ENERGY OF ACTIVATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENERGY OF ACTIVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

activation energy; energy of activation

Context example:

catalysts are said to reduce the energy of activation during the transition phase of a reaction

Hypernyms ("energy of activation" is a kind of...):

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)