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Okay.
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So this question's asking, what's the difference between a catalyst and an inhibitor? so basically, those are both things that affect the kinetics of a reaction.
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And kind of the best way to think about what they do is to just look at the chemical or the reaction coordinate diagram for a chemical reaction.
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So here we have our starting materials here, the energy of our products here, and we have some transatlanticine.
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Transition state required to get from point a to point b.
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Okay, so then what a catalyst and an inhibitor both do is basically change what this reaction progress looks like.
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So in the case of an inhibitor, this is something that slows down the reaction or can completely stop it and make it kinetically infeasible.
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And so what that does is effectively raises the activation energy.
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Like it raises it high enough that it's not something that can be accessible firmly as easily as it used to...