Questions tagged [equilibrium]
The state in which both reactants and products are present at concentrations which have no further tendency to change with time.
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How can equilibrium constant be derived by irreversible reaction?
I am solving the example from the book [Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Chapter 3, P3-12B] and finding out a contradictive point.
"The rate law for the A->B reaction was obtained ...
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Acid dissociation constant from conductometric data
$\ce{0.007 M}$ aq. solution of anilinium hydrochloride had molar conductivity equal to $\pu{119.4 S cm2 mol-1}$, which became $\pu{103 S cm2 mol-1}$ when a few drops of aniline were added to the ...
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Reversible and irreversible reactions [closed]
I searched that an reversible reaction can be made irreversible by removing its product.
I am wondering if catalysts can help produce the same effect. And I'd also like to know, if actually an ...
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How is it even possible that vapour pressure of liquid and vapour of solid are equal at freezing point? [duplicate]
My text book states The freezing point is defined as "the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the substance in its liquid phase is equal to its vapor pressure in the solid phase" Also ...
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Hydrolysis of $A_3B$ type weak acid-weak base salt
I know the formulae for weak acid-weak base salt of AB type. A peculiar question made me ask this. Do the formula for derived for AB type also hold for A3B type sal.
For example:
This is the question, ...
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pH calculation of HCOOH +plus HCl solution
Question - What volume of $0.1 \ce{M}$ $\ce{HCl}$ solution should be
added to a $\ce{500 mL}$ of $\ce{0.5 M }$ $\ce{HCOOH }$ solution in
order to prepare an acid solution of $\text{pH}$ =$1.5.$ $K_a$...
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Evaluating the density of a gas equilibrium mixture
I'm a beginner in chemistry (first year uni course) and I have this exercise that I need some help with. I don't really know where to start so for now. I've tried random approaches to see what works ...
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Determine reaction concentration at chemical equilibrium with multiple reactions
I have a problem understanding how to calculate the change/dependence of the concentrations at the chemical equilibrium using multiple reactions.
The concentration of my reactants and products at ...
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Can phosphorous penta hydroxide [P(OH)5] exist? [closed]
I was looking at the oxyacids of Phosphorous and it is given that (in Wikipedia article of "Phosphorous acid"), some of these acids (Eg: $H_3PO_2$ and $H_3PO_3$) exist in a dynamic ...
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Find the pH of a solution obtained by mixing 100 ml 0.1m Na3PO4 and 100 ml 0.1 M NaH2PO4. Given that H3PO4: [Κα₁ = 10^-4, Κα₂ = 10^-7, Каз = 10^-11] [closed]
So, my query is that since NaH2PO4 is a weak acid, and Na3PO4 is a basic salt, wouldn't they react? Another theory was that since NaH2PO4 is a weak acid and Na3PO4 is a salt of strong acid and NaH2PO4,...
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My textbook writes hydronium ion as [H(H2O)]+, is this correct? [closed]
[...] Thus, it bonds to the oxygen atom of a solvent water
molecule to give trigonal pyramidal hydronium ion, $\ce{H3O^+}$ $\ce{\{[H (H2O)]^+\}}$ (see box).
In this chapter we shall use $\ce{H^+(aq)}$ ...
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Why does balancing the oxidation of dichromate(VI) to chromium(III) require six iron atoms?
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Balance the following chemical equation using oxidation numbers:
$$ \ce{Fe^2+ + Cr_2O_7^2- -> Fe^3+ + Cr^3+} $$
What I have tried:
$$\ce{\overset{+II}{Fe}^{2+}(aq) + \overset{+VI}{Cr}...
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Determine equilibrium stability transition of a reaction (function of temp and concentrations)
I am trying to calculate and plot the stability of $\ce{Fe3O4 - FeS2}$ based on the chemical equation:
$$ \ce{Fe3O4(s) + 6SO2(g) + 16CO(g) -> 3FeS2 (s) + 16CO2(g)} \tag{1} $$
I want to plot the ...
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Really though, why can't a equilibrium manifest in a open system?
What my teacher said today: "Equilibrium is not attainable in an open system because then there the concentrations of the species in the system are undergoing continuous change, thus the reverse ...
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Calculating partial pressure: Difficult cubic equation in bulky Chemical Equilibrium numerical
The problem, which I found in a popular book for Physical Chemistry, written by Neeraj Kumar, is fairly simple, being simply 2 equations and 2 variables, yet its simplification is a nightmare.
$\pu{5 ...
