Which Statement Does Not Apply to Transition States

question 59

Multiple Choice

Which statement does not apply to transition states?

• A) Many have been detected experimentally.
• B) Chemical bonds are in the process of being formed and broken.
• C) have lifetimes on the order of 10^-14 to 10^-13 seconds
• D) differ in energy from the ground state by the activation energy

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