What Is The Concentration Of A Potato Catalase Reaction

For the 30%, the change in temperature was very quick but plateaued at 25 degrees just as quick. For the 20%, the change in temperature was completed by around the 3rd-minute mark, so relatively fast before plateauing at 25 degrees. But the 3% took almost the whole 7 minutes to finish rising in temperature. So essentially, the higher the concentration of hydrogen peroxide, the faster the reaction will take place. Furthermore, the foam (water and oxygen produced by the potatoes catalase reacting with hydrogen peroxide) was a kind of indicator of how the reaction was going. It almost indirectly related to the temperature increase, because every time the temperature was rising there also seemed to be foam also rising at the top of the hydrogen peroxide. As you can compare when the temperature started rising in my tests, my observations would also have a correlation to the foam produced by the catalase.
Why did this happen? Why did all 3 reactions plateau at a certain temperature, regardless of concentration? Wouldn't a higher concentration allow for a higher temperature as there is less time for heat to escape during the reaction? These are all questions that could be further developed to understand this how hydrogen peroxide and this potato catalase functions. How does this apply to the real world? The whole idea of this experiment was concentration, and how concentration impacts a reaction. One example relating to hydrogen peroxide is 3% hydrogen peroxide sold over drug stores, often used as a disinfectant and bleach agent. Or higher concentrations of hydrogen peroxide can burn skin. The concentration of substances anywhere can dictate many outcomes and variables, regardless of whether it’s in a lab or at home. In this experiment, the only trend was how each concentration hit the 25 degrees mark and how quickly each concentration hit that