In chemistry, the law of mass action is a mathematical model that explains and predicts behaviors of solutions in dynamic equilibrium. It can be described with two aspects: 1) the equilibrium aspect, concerning the composition of a reaction mixture at equilibrium and 2) the kinetic aspect concerning the rate equations for elementary reactions. Both aspects stem from the research by Guldberg and Waage (1864-1879) in which equilibrium constants were derived by using kinetic data and the rate equation which they had proposed. Guldberg and Waage also recognized that chemical equilibrium is a dynamic process in which rates of reaction for the forward and backward reactions must be equal.
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Law of mass action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Equilibrium constant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For equilibria in a gas phase, the activity of a gaseous component is the product of the component’s partial pressure and the fugacity coefficient for this component. In this case activity is dimensionless as fugacity has the dimension of inverse pressure.
The Last Question - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The Last Question” is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1. It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac.
