[blueboing]

Hello, I have been doing some experiements designed to find out the difference in activation energy when reacting magnesium ribbon with Hydrochloric acid and magnesium ribbon with ethanoic acid. I worked out that the activation energy for the HCl experiment was 12.6KJ and the ethanoic experiment was 28.4KJ. I just wanted to know if anyone knows any theory behind this. Thanks

[Hello12]

Maybe because the bonds in the stronger acids are weaker, and the bonds in the weak acids are stronger. Or it could be to do with the number of H+ ions