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What is the effect of a catalyst in an equilibrium process?

A catalyst provides an alternative pathway for a reaction to take place and therefore helping the reaction to take place at a lower activation energy. In an equilibrium process, a catalyst has no effect o...

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Answered by Rajenth N. Chemistry tutor
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What are covalent bonds?

Covalent bonds are a type of chemical bond formed by a shared pair of electrons between atoms. 

Covalent bonds tend to occur between non-metal type atoms ...

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Answered by Aneesh S. Chemistry tutor
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What are optical isomers?

Optical isomerism is a paritcular type of steroeisomerism (stereoisomers are molecule that are made up of atoms joined up in the same order so have the same formula but are arranged di...

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Answered by Aneesh S. Chemistry tutor
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What does the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution illustrate?

The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is used to describe the fact that at a given temperature the individual atoms of an ideal gas are not all moving at the same velocity and thus have different kinetic ...

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Answered by Karl R. Chemistry tutor
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What happens when some alkali is added to a buffer solution?

The dissociation of the weak acid ‘HA’ would be shown as:HA (aq) ⇌ H+ (aq) + A (aq)Adding alkali will add OH- ions to the solution. These will react with the H+

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Answered by Holly D. Chemistry tutor
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