Chemistry A-Level
Pressure and concentration effects
What Pressure and concentration effects means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Pressure and concentration effects
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Increasing pressure shifts equilibrium towards the side with fewer moles of gas, while adding a reactant or removing a product shifts it to the right.
Topics that use Pressure and concentration effects
- Chemical equilibrium (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Calculating Kc from equilibrium concentrations
- closed system
- constant concentrations
- Controlling variables in equilibrium experiments
- dynamic equilibrium
- Dynamic equilibrium and equal forward and reverse rates
- Dynamic equilibrium in closed systems
- Effect of concentration change on equilibrium position
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