5.3 equilibria

• rate of reaction tells me how quickly reactants are converted to products
• What is a potential drawback of a fast rate of reaction in industry?

  Expensive to generate conditions for a fast reaction (or) Safety concerns associated with very fast reactions
• Factors that can affect the rate of reaction:

  Temperature

  Use of Catalyst

  Pressure of gas reactants

  Surface area
• Catalysts often come as a powder because powders have a high surface area to volume ratio, leading to a faster rate of reaction
• Dynamic equilibrium - A state of equilibrium in which the rate of forward and reverse reactions are equal