Chemical equilibrium involving concentration

With external standardization, an equivalent analyte concentration in the standard and sample should yield the same analyte fluorescence signal. The accuracy of the determinations is dependent on interferences, chemical equilibrium involving the analyte, scattering, and quenching. Analyte interference due to absorption, scattering, or quenching may be... 

From the reactions (1.86) and (1.87) and chemical equilibrium involving Cu-and Fe-chloro-complexes, iso-concentration contours for Cu- and Fe-minerals are drawn on logfo -pH diagram (Fig. 1.32 Crerar and Barnes 1976). Above calcida-tions were carried out, assuming that Cu- and Fe-chloro-complexes are dominant Cu- and Fe-species (Crerar and Barnes 1976). Bisulfide-, thio- and carbonate-complexes are also important in determining solubility of sulfides as well as chloro-complexes (Table 1.5, Brimhall and Crerar (1987)). Above argument clearly indicates that dominant base metal complexes in hydrothermal solution depend on concentration of ligand, pH, foj, temperature and so on. 

Both relationships include a constant and both involve concentrations raised to exponential powers. However, a rate law and an equilibrium expression describe fundamentally different aspects of a chemical reaction. A rate law describes how the rate of a reaction changes with concentration. As we describe in this chapter, an equilibrium expression describes the concentrations of reactants and products when the net rate of the reaction is zero. 

When a solid acts as a catalyst for a reaction, reactant molecules are converted into product molecules at the fluid-solid interface. To use the catalyst efficiently, we must ensure that fresh reactant molecules are supplied and product molecules removed continuously. Otherwise, chemical equilibrium would be established in the fluid adjacent to the surface, and the desired reaction would proceed no further. Ordinarily, supply and removal of the species in question depend on two physical rate processes in series. These processes involve mass transfer between the bulk fluid and the external surface of the catalyst and transport from the external surface to the internal surfaces of the solid. The concept of effectiveness factors developed in Section 12.3 permits one to average the reaction rate over the pore structure to obtain an expression for the rate in terms of the reactant concentrations and temperatures prevailing at the exterior surface of the catalyst. In some instances, the external surface concentrations do not differ appreciably from those prevailing in the bulk fluid. In other cases, a significant concentration difference arises as a consequence of physical limitations on the rate at which reactant molecules can be transported from the bulk fluid to the exterior surface of the catalyst particle. Here, we discuss... 

As has been suggested in the previous section, explanations of solvent effects on the basis of the macroscopic physical properties of the solvent are not very successful. The alternative approach is to make use of the microscopic or chemical properties of the solvent and to consider the detailed interaction of solvent molecules with their own kind and with solute molecules. If a configuration in which one or more solvent molecules interacts with a solute molecule has a particularly low free energy, it is feasible to describe at least that part of the solute-solvent interaction as the formation of a molecular complex and to speak of an equilibrium between solvated and non-solvated molecules. Such a stabilization of a particular solute by solvation will shift any equilibrium involving that solute. For example, in the case of formation of carbonium ions from triphenylcarbinol, the equilibrium is shifted in favor of the carbonium ion by an acidic solvent that reacts with hydroxide ion and with water. The carbonium ion concentration in sulfuric acid is greater than it is in methanol-... 

In this section, you compared strong and weak acids and bases using your understanding of chemical equilibrium, and you solved problems involving their concentrations and pH. Then you considered the effect on pH of buffer solutions solutions that contain a mixture of acid ions and base ions. In the next section, you will compare pH changes that occur when solutions of acids and bases with different strengths react together. 

A most useful characteristic of chemical equilibrium is that all equilibria are satisfied simultaneously. If we know the concentration of I, we can calculate the concentration of Pb2+ by substituting this value into the equilibrium constant expression for Reaction 6-11, regardless of whether there are other reactions involving Pb2+. The concentration of Pb2 that satisfies any one equilibrium must satisfy all equilibria. There can be only one concentration of Pb2 in the solution. 

The general principles of chemical equilibrium (Chapter 16) apply to reactions of neutral molecules and to reactions of ions. Chemical equilibria are of special interest, not only because they are used in commercial processes, but also because many of the reactions involved in life are equilibrium reactions. As in Chapter 16, concentrations will be expressed in mol/L and will be referred to in the mathematical relationships by enclosing the substance in square brackets. Further, these chapters are dedicated to the discussion of aqueous solutions. In other words if the solvent is not identified, it is to be taken as water. 

From Eqn. (14) it follows that with an exothermic reaction - and this is the case for most reactions in reactive absorption processes - decreases with increasing temperature. The electrolyte solution chemistry involves a variety of chemical reactions in the liquid phase, for example, complete dissociation of strong electrolytes, partial dissociation of weak electrolytes, reactions among ionic species, and complex ion formation. These reactions occur very rapidly, and hence, chemical equilibrium conditions are often assumed. Therefore, for electrolyte systems, chemical equilibrium calculations are of special importance. Concentration or activity-based reaction equilibrium constants as functions of temperature can be found in the literature [50]. 

Experimental methodologies for perturbing a chemical reaction at equilibrium are well developed and descriptions of them are widely available.20,21 The choice of method depends on the time scale of the reaction kinetics and the kinds of chemical species whose concentration deviations are to be measured. Techniques as simple as the dilution of one or more chemical species or as complicated as electromagnetic field pulsing can be involved (Fig. 4.1). The basic principles, regardless of methodology, are that an external perturbation (e.g., a change in applied pressure) occurs over a time interval that is very much smaller than the time scales of the reaction kinetics that the mechanism... 

Depending on the velocity of fluid flow, the thickness varies from 10 to 100 pm, and it may cover from less than 20% to more than 90% of the metal surface. Biofilms or macrofouling in seawater can cause redox reactions that initiate or accelerate corrosion. Biofilms accumulate ions, manganese and iron, in concentrations far above those in the surrounding bulk water. They can also act as a diffusion barrier. Finally, some bacteria are capable of being directly involved in the oxidation or reduction of metal ions, particularly iron and manganese. Such bacteria can shift the chemical equilibrium between Fe, Fe2+, and Fe3+, which often influences the corrosion rate. (Dexter)5... 

The cloud chemistry simulation chamber (5,6) provides a controlled environment to simulate the ascent of a humid parcel of polluted air in the atmosphere. The cloud forms as the pressure and temperature of the moist air decreases. By controlling the physical conditions influencing cloud growth (i.e. initial temperature, relative humidity, cooling rate), and the size, composition, and concentration of suspended particles, chemical transformation rates of gases and particles to dissolved ions in the cloud water can be measured. These rates can be compared with those derived from physical/chemical models (7,9) which involve variables such as liquid water content, solute concentration, the gas/liquid interface, mass transfer, chemical equilibrium, temperature, and pressure. 

Chemical process rate equations involve the quantity related to concentration fluctuations as a kinetic parameter called chemical relaxation. The stochastic theory of chemical kinetics investigates concentration fluctuations (Malyshev, 2005). For diffusion of polymers, flows through porous media, and the description liquid helium, Fick s and Fourier s laws are generally not applicable, since these laws are based on linear flow-force relations. A general formalism with the aim to go beyond the linear flow-force relations is the extended nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Polymer solutions are highly relevant systems for analyses beyond the local equilibrium theory. 

For solutions of fixed ionic strength, or, for example, where major ions in solution, e.g. conservative cations and anions, are present at concentrations several orders of magnitude greater than the species involved in the chemical equilibrium, e.g. A, B, C, and D in Equation (3.13), it can be assumed that the solute activity coefficients are also constants and can be incorporated into the equilibrium constant. The equilibrium constant for a fixed ionic strength aqueous solution is termed a constant ionic strength equilibrium constant, K. 

Homogeneous Equilibrium. For the change in state in aqueous solution given in (1), the thermodynamic equilibrium constant K, which must be expressed in terms of the activities of the chemical species involved, is given to a good approximation by the analogous expression involving concentrations ... 

This distribution law applies only to the distribution of a definite chemical species, as does Henry s law. The distribution constant is not a true thermodynamic equilibrium constant, since it involves concentrations rather than activities. Thus it may vary slightly with the concentration of the solute (particularly because of the relatively high concentration of I2 in the CCI4 phase) it is therefore advantageous to determine 1 at a number of concentrations. It can be determined directly by titration of both phases with standard thiosulfate solution when I2 is distributed between CCI4 and pure water. Once k is known, (I2) in an aqueous phase containing I3 can be obtained by means of a titration of the I2 in a CCI4 layer that has been equilibrated with this phase. The use of a distribution constant in this manner depends upon the assumption that its value is unaffected by the presence of ions in the aqueous phase. 

Note that the net effect of inserting an activity of 1 into the equilibrium expression for each pure solid or liquid in the reaction has the same effect as simply disregarding them. If pure solids or pure liquids are involved in a chemical reaction, their concentrations are not included in the equilibrium expression for the reaction. This simplification occurs only with pure solids or liquids, not with solutions or gases, because in these last two cases the activity cannot be assumed to be 1. 

Chemical equilibria for many reactions have been studied. In each case it has been found that at equilibrium the concentrations of reactants and products remained constant. As long ago as 1864, Guldberg and Waage were working on equilibrium reactions they claimed that each chemical taking part had an active mass , which was the force that controlled the progress of a reaction. They concluded that the force was proportional to the masses of the chemicals involved. 

To determine the type of the chemical reaction involved and the sequence of chemical and electrochemical processes and finally to determine the value of the rate constant, it is necessary to record the waves of the substance C at various concentrations of B at a given temperature. For the computation of rate constant it is moreover necessary to know the value of the equilibrium constant K determined by an independent experiment. 

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