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At room temperature (20C) orange juice gets spoilt in about 64 hours. In a refrigerator at 3C juice can be stored three times as long before it gets spoilt. The activation energy of the reaction that causes the spoiling of juice is :

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43.46 kJmol1
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46.76 kJmol1
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49.54 kJmol1
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50.23 kJmol1
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Solution

The correct option is A 43.46 kJmol1
The Arrhenius expression is k=AeEa/RT
At two different temperatures, this expression takes the form logk2k1=Ea2.303R[1T11T2]
Substitute values in the above expression.
log3=Ea2.303×8.314[12761293]
Thus, the activation energy is Ea=43.46 kJmol1.

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