Will a reaction still be considered at equillibrium if the rate of forward is significantly more
Lets say we have a reaction in which we have a ton of product of which has slow rate of going backwards and a small amount of reactant with a fast rate of forward. The amount of product formation is equal to amount of reactant formed per unit time and the whole system is at balance.
Will it still be considered equillibrium?
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+solved @user1 @user2... to close the thread when your doubt is solved. Mention the users who helped you solve the doubt. This will be added to their stats.I meant in the question is that even tho a unit of product will make less amount of reactant compared to same amount of reactand making product, its that it has a lot more quantity of product
so it balances out
lets say we have measured everything perfectly and have the perfect amount of stuff to make it balance
also another question:
does a catalyst increase the rate of reaction both forward and backward?
@iTeachChem sir please help
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I didn't follow this. If you're saying that can there be more products than reactants, absolutely. You know, for reactions where k is greater than 1000, you assume it to almost be complete. Where k is much lesser than 10 power minus 3, you're saying there's no reaction. And in ionic equilibrium, you'll see most reactions having k values of less than 10 power minus 3. And in, say, electrolysis, you'll see all things having such crazy high k values that they're almost complete. Right. So from that point of view, it works. Was that a question?
that wasnt really my question 😅
just skip the details and lets asumme there is a reaction where the rate of reaction forward and backward isnt same but the system is constant in its mass, concentration etc
ignoring how this system is at this kind of balance, will you say its at equillibrium? (even tho rates are different)
It can’t be na. If rate is different that itself means that things are changing with time.
The definition of equilibrium is when things don’t change with time.
So youre saying its not possible for a system to have different rates of forward and backward but have every other property like concentration, pressure etc to be same
Is the rate of a reaction defined for per unit of reactant/product or for all the product/reactant in that system?
And equilibrium too
shall we close this out? you good?
please let it be open for some time......
until I study chemical kinetics more
padh liya? :D
you can find questions once they are closed btw! by just searching them up here with the name of the doubt
padha toh nahi but you can close it
thanks
That's okay. You can always find it once closed.
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