You must examine the problems associated with making hard-boiled eggs in two situations:

i) 100C and 1 atm at the surface

ii) 2500m above sea level, where the pressure is 0.780 bar and the boiling point of water is 91C. In situation i) it takes 10 min. to boil a hard-boiled egg and in situation ii) it takes 12 hours to boil a hard-boiled egg.

Answer the following questions:

1)Use the Arrhenius equation to determine the activation energy for the reaction.

2) Use the Arrhenius equation to determine the pre-exponential factor for the reaction.

3) You must use the expression for the rate constant from activated complex theory (transition state theory) to indicate the changes in enthalpy and entropy for the activation process. You need to consider what the changes in enthalpy and entropy mean for the reaction.