When the rates of forward and reverse reactions are similar and the concentrations of the reactants and products stay constant, chemical equilibrium is reached.
The number of skiers carried up the ski lifts is equal to the number descending the pistes at this busy resort.
Chemical balance includes various substances, such as reactants and products.
The balance between two phases is called physical balance because physical processes are the changes that occur.
For a particular temperature reaction K [C]c [D]d [A]a [B]b(14.2) with a constant balance of K.
Two Norwegian chemists, Cato Guldberg in the first place and Peter Waage in the second place, formulated equation (14.2), in 1864.
It is the mathematical expression of their law of mass action whereby a certain ratio of reactant and product levels is constant for a reversible reaction at balance and a constant temperature, K (the equilibrium constant).
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