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A-level Chemistry/OCR (Salters)/Equilibrium constants
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Mathematical definition of an equilibrium constant
For a reversible reaction,
the equilibrium constant K is defined as
where [X] denotes the concentration of chemical species X.
For example, for the Haber process reaction,
the equilibrium constant can be calculated by