An equation that represents the effect of temperature on the velocity of a chemical reaction expressed as:
where k is the rate constant for the reaction, Ea is the activation energy, R is the gas constant, T is the absolute temperature and A is frequency factor. An Arrhenius plot of lnk against 1/T gives a straight line of slope –E/R and is valid for a large number of chemical reactions. It is named after Swedish chemist and physicist Svante August Arrhenius (1859–1927).