Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each comparison or disturbance to its consequence.
- less than
- greater than
- Raising the temperature
- Adding more reactant
- Net forward reaction until they are equal
- Changes the value of itself
- Moves the position without changing
- Net reverse reaction until they are equal
Hints
- The quotient always chases the constant.
- Only one of these disturbances alters the constant rather than the position.
Show the answer
- less than → Net forward reaction until they are equal
- greater than → Net reverse reaction until they are equal
- Raising the temperature → Changes the value of itself
- Adding more reactant → Moves the position without changing
Why
The system always moves so that approaches . Concentration changes relocate the system on the same constant, while temperature is unique in changing the constant itself.
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