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Dear students, the question is adding a catalyst to an equilibrium system will produce more product at equilibrium or produce more reactant at equilibrium or not change the amount of reactants or products at equilibrium.
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That means here we are talking about effect of a catalyst on a reversible reaction which is at equilibrium.
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Let a gives rise to b, this is a reversible equilibrium for example.
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Now when you are adding a catalyst here, it affects the rate of the reaction of both forward and backward reaction.
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As a result, the equilibrium will not affected by the addition of catalyst.
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But the time of equilibrium that means the equilibrium may attain at a faster rate that means it facilitates the attainment of equilibrium by speeding up the reactions and second it will not affect because it affects both the reactions equally.
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Therefore the amounts of reactants and products will remain same.
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Only the equilibrium will attain at a faster rate that means if earlier we are getting the equilibrium after 10 minutes, now we can get before 10 minutes the attainment of equilibrium.
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But the amount of reactants and products will remain same...