Consider the following equilibrium reaction: C= D and Figure 2 to answer the questions below! c. Why you can calculate Kc in each case without knowing the volume of the vessel? d. Explain in your own words, why the concentrations of pure liquids and pure solids are not written in the mass action expression of heterogeneous reactions? (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 2. The green spheres represent the C molecules and the blue spheres represent the D molecules.

Consider the following equilibrium reaction: C= D and Figure 2 to answer the questions below! c. Why you can calculate Kc in each case without knowing the volume of the vessel? d. Explain in your own words, why the concentrations of pure liquids and pure solids are not written in the mass action expression of heterogeneous reactions? (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 2. The green spheres represent the C molecules and the blue spheres represent the D molecules.

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Chapter12: Chemical Equilibrium

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