How does stirring affect rate of reaction?

Answer 1

So basically, when you stir a solution, it physically moves all of the chemicals around so the atoms of each are more evenly spread throughout the solution. imagine X represents one reactant, and Y represents the other reactant.

Before stirring, they are mixed like this : X X X X X Y X Y X Y X Y Y Y Y Y

After Stirring they are like this : X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y

so more of the X molecules are next to more of the Y molecules so the reaction happens quicker.

Answer 2

The rate of solution will increase if the system is stirred. Stirring increases the kinetic energy of particles and will increase collisions between solute and solvent.

Answer 3

Stirring increase the rate of solution, because the stirring increase the amount of collisions there are on the molecular level which makes it go faster.