"Spontaneous Means Instantaneous"
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A spontaneous reaction is one that releases energy and needs no outside energy source to proceed — it says nothing about how fast that reaction runs.
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Iron rusting is a spontaneous, exergonic reaction that can still take years to finish.
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Confusing "spontaneous" with "instant" misreads a claim about energy direction as a claim about reaction speed.
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