Unfortunately, myths and misconceptions about genital HPV abound, and in some cases do considerable harm. Bad information can cause a person to suffer terrible anxiety unnecessarily, to doubt a partnerâs faithfulness, or even to undergo painful and expensive treatment that could have been avoided.
If the activation energy of a reaction is high, then it requires a large amount of energy to initiate the reaction.
The activation energy diagram is drawn as a hill because there is a large amount of energy needed to form the unstable transition state (viewed as the upward slope on the diagram). The difference between this peak energy and the rectants' energy is the activation energy.