Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things
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I hate every graph I found on Google for “activation energy” so our thumbnail for this essay is just gonna be Heat some paper to 300ºF (150ºC) and mostly what happens is you have some hot paper. Heat some paper to 500ºF (260ºC) and what you have is a fire. You can use that fire to start other fires, and there’s a self-sustaining thing happening that will go on until all of the locally available fuel is consumed. If you’re trying to push a table or dresser across a floor, and it takes fifty pounds of force to get it to start moving, it probably only takes forty or thirty pounds of force to…
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