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Hmm... okay, I understand that part well. So does that mean that activation energy can theoretically be zero, but not in practice? I've checked the Wikipedia page for activation energy and it says that it is "the energy that must be overcome in order for a chemical reaction to occur." In...

@Mapes: "The activation energy is the difference between the maximum intermediate energy and the starting energy." So that basically means if I were to measure (somehow) the energy of a reaction system at, say, 293K, and the energy at this temperature is that "maximum intermediate energy"...

I've been trying to find a definitive answer to this question since long, and I still haven't found one! My teacher at school says that it can't be zero, according to the Arrhenius equation. She says if the activation energy were to be zero, every collision would result in a reaction, which...