CHEM 101A Lecture 10: chem week 10 lecture
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Amount of product obtained when the reaction takes place. Many times in chemical reaction there is not enough of one product of one reactant to use up the other reactant completely. Limits amount of product you can make. Once product is starting to be made, products will start making reactant. Reversible reaction can be approached from either direction. After certain amount of time, concentrations of reactants and products are constant. Forward and reverse reactions continue after equilibrium. K subscript eq gives concentrations of products and reactants at equilibrium. No matter what concentrations you start with, at equilibrium, the ratio of products over reactions is constant. Solids and pure liquids do not change their concentration at equilibrium and are not included in the keq expression. A reaction that favors products has a large k. A reaction with about equal concentrations of products and reactants has a k close to one. A reactions that favors reactants has a small k.