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Provide examples to support the claim that processes involving breaking and making of several covalent bonds are sometimes not reversible.
Breaking and forming of bonds to convert one molecule to another molecule are not always reversible.Ex. CH4 + Cl2 --------> CH3Cl + HClIt is an irreversible reaction.
Chemistry 102
Chemistry 101
Chapter 23
Chemical Equilibrium
Section 2
Reversible Processes
Chemical reactions and Stoichiometry
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hi there. Chemical reactions, of course, involve reactant where chemical bonds are broken and then they are rearranged to form products where new chemical bonds were formed. Many chemical reactions are not reversible. Let's talk about a couple of examples. Um, let's just talk about would, for example, build a nice campfire with some wood. It's going to react with oxygen in the air. Um, is going to form some carbon dioxide. It's gonna form some water. You will probably get some ash leftover, which is just some carbon remaining. There might be some other impurities that are left over, but we can't take these products and reverse them back to form would again. This is not reversible. We can't get that would back another example. We can react iron with oxygen to form iron three oxide. Go ahead and balance this out. But the significance of this equation is this is rust. We've started with some iron and some oxygen. We've formed some new Covalin bonds here, forming rust. This is not reversible. We cannot react that rust and get our original iron back. That would be great. If we could, we could reverse reverse that rusting process that would be also, but we can't. It's not reversible. Um, similarly, we know we can burn lots of carbon containing compounds like gasoline. We could burn gasoline, and it's gonna react with oxygen in the air is going to provide us with energy to make our car move. I'm gonna produce, um, carbon dioxide, some water, probably some carbon monoxide, some other waste products, But the point being, we cannot take carbon dioxide from the air and reverse this process to make gasoline again. That would be awesome if we could. That could take care of a lot of the problems we have with carbon dioxide in the air right now. But this process simply is not reversible. So these are some examples of some chemical reactions that are not reversible. There are many, many examples of these, even though we are studying reversible processes right now, there are lots of reactions that are not reversible.
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