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Description: For an equilibrium involving gaseous substances, what effect, in general terms, is realized when the volume of the system is decreased?

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For an equilibrium involving gaseous substances, what effect, in general terms, is realized when the volume of the system is decreased?

Stephanie L · Accepted Answer

So this question asked, What is the effect of decreasing the volume on a gashes Equilibrium? The way you want to think about this is if we decreased of all you that is going to cause the total pressure to increase says pressure and volume are inversely related, according to PV equals NRT now, because the total pressure increases now, the equilibrium is gonna want to decrease the pressure back down. Days of the equal. A room wants to shift to decrease the pressure. John of the system, right? And when I say the total pressure increases, that means the pressure of all the gashes species of increased. All right. So in order to decrease the pressure, the only thing we can do by shifting the equilibrium is to shift to a side with less moles of guests. Because if you think about what pressure is and keep vehicles and our teeth by the less walls of gas we have in the container, the lower the pressure. And so that&#x27;s the way you want to think about it in terms of value and what happens to the shift of the equilibrium. Now, when I say less most of gas, we are looking at the Stoke your metric coefficients of all the gashes species on those size of chemical immigration I and it&#x27;s only the ones for the guests.

William Mills · Answer

this question asks, What is the effect of a change in volume on a chemical reaction that includes gashes, reactions or products that is initially the equilibrium. Let&#x27;s take this equation here. Gases reacting. You have different number of bowls of gases on either side and asks, How does changing volume, change of direction or the shift in this equilibrium? So here we have the ideal gas loans kind of easy way to figure out which direction things will move if we decrease the volume, you could pretend pressure&#x27;s gonna stay constant here. If we decrease the volume, we have to also decrease something on this side of the equation. We&#x27;re not changing the gas, Const. Of course we&#x27;re not changing the temperature, so I have to think about number of moles. So if we&#x27;re decreasing on this side, we have to decrease on this side. So if you decrease bullying, you have to move the reaction towards the fewer number of moles that would be to the left in this reaction. So if we decrease the the reaction&#x27;s gonna move to the left. If we increase, be again, increased, be on the left, we have to increase on the right would move towards the greater number of bowls, which is what&#x27;s true in the products. So they&#x27;ve moved to the right now in a different equation, which you have, say, the same number of moles on the side of the equation. You change the volume, you change the number of moles. But since is the same nonverbals of both sides. The reactions equilibrium doesn&#x27;t shift, and another possibility is if you added a completely different gas to this equation. But it was inert and it didn&#x27;t react with anything. You&#x27;re not changing the number of moles of product or reacting kind of changing them both, equally so again. Also no shift and equally agreeable to occur. The shift would only occur if there&#x27;s different numbers of moles that gas on either side of the equation and you change the ball you

Amy Jiang · Answer

So what is the effect of volume on a chemical reaction initially at equilibrium? Okay, so draw two boxes that represent reactive and product. Let&#x27;s say that we have three. Most of reacted and foremost of Sundays are currently at equilibrium. So if we were to increase our volumes, then based on the book, we know that, um, if we increased volume, then we have more space now. So are chemical equation would want to shift to, um decide with more mold. In that case, if we increase our volume, our reaction would just get right to accommodate more moves. And if we were to decrease the volume, we would do the option. We would want to shift to the left to reduce our amount more.

Ronald Prasad · Answer

let&#x27;s look at the effect that a change on volume would have. So there several effects. Increasing the volume causes the reaction to shift in the direction that has the fewer malls of gasp gas molecules. Increasing the volume causes the reaction to shift in the direction that has greater moles of gas molecules. If there are equal moves of gas on both sides, uh, the chemical equation, then a change in volume has no effect on the equilibrium. And, uh, adding in a newt gas to the mixture in a fixed volume has no effect on the equilibrium.

Anatole Borisov · Answer

I think this question is basically asking us to consider how the ideal gas law tells us different characteristics of a Gasol behave. And so this is the ideal gas law on. So if we&#x27;re told that the volume right here goes down, what happens to the rest of system? And so there&#x27;s it&#x27;s implying the in the question that the amount of gas is changed so and will be constant and it&#x27;s not really said explicitly, but we know by the answer that were coming to get that the temperature here&#x27;s also constant. And so it&#x27;s really asking is how is pressure going to change to counter act this decrease in volume? So if all three of these terms and are NT are constant, this whole thing equals some number. And so if he goes down, P better go up so that the product of P and G still could possibly equal at so to ask the question. When volume goes down, the pressure is

Charotte Mcadam · Answer

So the first thing what we will be discussing here is the shot list. Principle is quite important information when looking at chemical equilibrium because it explains a lot of the changes that occur within a system and why they might occur. Solo shot Liz principle tells us that when a chemical system that is measured to be an equilibrium might be disturbed, then the system will shift in a direction in order to try and minimize that disturbance. So, in other words, it will try to minimize the change that is trying to be imposed upon the system just is one more piece off contextual information before we start looking at the main content of this podcast. The pressure is directly proportional to the malls off gas mixture. So after we decrease the pressure of reaction mixture, it will shift the reaction towards higher moles off gas parts. Calls on this is towards our product size. Off the reaction

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For an equilibrium involving gaseous substances, what effect, in general terms, is realized when the volume of the system is decreased?

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When the volume of the system is decreased, the pressure will increase. The system will try to minimize the pressure by forming less gaseous species. Hence, the equilibrium shifts to the direction that contains less number of moles of gases.

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