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Chapter 9: Chemical Equilibria and Reversible Reactions
— When a reaction goes both ways, chemistry gets interesting. —
Why this matters
(I once asked a class, "If a reaction can go forwards, can it also go backwards?" Most students said no — they thought reactions always go to completion. But that is not true. Some reactions are reversible — they can go both ways. And when they do, something remarkable happens: the reaction never quite finishes. It reaches a state called dynamic equilibriu
