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LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of chemical equilibrium mean? 

LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM (noun)
  The noun LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reactionplay

  Familiarity information: LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM used as a noun is very rare.


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LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

equilibrium law; law of chemical equilibrium

Hypernyms ("law of chemical equilibrium" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)


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