chemical equilibrium

1. A balanced condition within a system of chemical reactions . When in chemical equilibrium, substances form and break down at the same rate, and the number of molecules of each substance becomes definite and constant.

Example Sentences

Now we know that the mass of enzyme does not influence the chemical equilibrium but only the velocity of the reaction.

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An attempt to consider this factor was made by Claude Louis Berthollet , who introduced the conception of chemical equilibrium.

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The ordinary laws of chemical equilibrium have been applied to the case of the dissociation of a substance into its ions.

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