Chemical Equilibrium
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1. Compare the situation of a crowded nightclub at a capacity with a waiting line to equilibrium. What could change this equilibrium condition? (75+ explain in specific details)
2. Catalysts have no effect on the position of equilibrium. Why are they used in almost every industrial chemical equilibrium reaction? (75+ words in specific details)
3. List three reactions found in every day life that are equilibrium reactions. What factors routinely affect the equilibrium concentrations of those reactions? (Explain in specific details)
4. Oxygen bond to hemoglobin (Hb) in red blood cells is delivered to tissues by the following endothermic process:
HbO2 + H+ <---> HbH + O2
Assuming that there is a constant partial pressure for oxygen, according to Le Chatelier's Principle which of the following occurs to the amount of oxygen delivered when body temperature decreases during hypothermia? What could you do to make sure that plenty of oxygen is produced?