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Chemistry

How Enzymes Lower Activation Energy in Biological Reactions

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Enzymes can lower activation energy by 10 to 100 kJ/mol, accelerating reactions by factors of up to 10^17 – that's like compressing a billion years into a second.

Why this is interesting

Your body digests food in minutes, but in a lab that same reaction could take hours. How do tiny protein machines speed up reactions by millions of times without being consumed?