Big Idea 6: Any Bond or intermolecular attraction that can be formed can be broken. These two processes are in a dynamic competition, sensitive to initial conditions and external disterbances.
Enduring understanding 6A: Chemical equilibrium is a dynamic reversible state in which rates of opposing processes are equal.
Enduring Understanding 6B: Systems at equilibrium are responsive to external stresses, with the response leading to a change in the composition of the system.
Enduring Understanding 6C: Chemical equilibrium plays an important role in acid-base chemistry and solubility.
- Acid base: See Acid base chapter.
- Solubility equilibrium: See Ksp
Enduring Understanding 6D: The equilibirum constant is related to temperature and the difference in Gibbs free energy between reactants and products. (See Thermodynamics)
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