Timeline for When is a reaction reversible?
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| Nov 30, 2015 at 16:33 | comment | added | phi2k | Jeez, this answer is very detailed. Thank you all for your answers. I will return if I need further clarification. :) | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 8:33 | comment | added | sqykly | That last bit is what I was trying to get across toward the end of the first paragraph of my answer - pretty much any reaction where you get rid of the product immediately is going to look irreversible. Biochem is what I went to school for, and that's just full of examples of systems that are perfectly reversible - as soon as they're dead and stop eliminating this or that product. Same is true for physically removing the product. When you put it like that, though, the removal has a free energy too - perhaps if we calculate the whole system we will be able to define reversible more exactly? | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 19:19 | history | answered | bon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |