Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge / 2022 / Paper 2 / A7 / c / Solution

For fixed degeneracies and ionization energy,Therefore $K_c$ increases with temperature in this model. Ionization costs positive energy, so it is suppressed at low temperature by its Boltzmann factor. At higher temperature that penalty becomes less important.

Ionization also creates an additional independently translating particle and more ways to distribute the particles and their momenta. This favours the ionized mixture through its translational and mixing entropy, consistent with the $T^{3/2}$ prefactor and increasing ionization at high temperature.