le chatelier's principle

If you haven't done chem olympiad, or just plain forgotten, Le Chatelier's principle states that:
If a chemical system at equilibrium experiences a change in concentration, temperature, volume, or partial pressure, then the equilibrium shifts to counteract the imposed change and a new equilibrium is established.

Basically, in an equilibrium reaction, if you do something to it, the equilibrium system will shift to neutralise what you just did. For example,
Nitrogen + Hydrogen <=> Ammonia
If you have some Nitrogen and Hydrogen, chucked them together, it will create ammonia until it reaches equilibrium. If you then add more ammonia, the system will be like "No screw you" and then break down ammonia until you have nitrogen and hydrogen at equilibrium again. Capiche?
In super short terms: if you mess with an equilibrium reaction, the reaction will un-mess itself.

So I have been able to comment about this in real life several times. Take Superman comics for example (our table was just randomly talking about Superman in English haha). There are no super-villians in our world atm, correct? Or at least, not to the world domination level that is so lovingly portrayed in comic books. But in comics there is a Superman. And he shifted the equilibrium towards good. So there needs to be a shift towards bad to regain equilibrium. So supervillians are born. =D

A more relevant, real life example?
I guess international politics. In general I guess we see communism as "bad". I don't really agree with that but I think the US military sure does. So like when Vietname was being "bad", the US government was like OH CRAP THIS IS SO RELEVANT TO US. ATTACK!
Likewise, now that Libyans decide to overthrow Gaddafi (or however 60-odd other ways there are to spell it), US is like "WE MUST 'HELP'. ATTACK!"
So yeah that's my general understanding of the political situation.
But Le Chatelier's Principle - If there is a rise of 'bad', there will be a rise of 'good' to remedy it.

Alright yay for encryption. Only 1 person is designed to get this so uhh. Have fun!
Exact title of your last blog post, plus the timestamp
trololol'd it has outlived it's usefulness.
So mine would look like "le chatelier's principle 6.11pm". Happy wild guessing for everyone! Except for the person who this is designed for hahaha. Don't forget caps and the way my time is punctuated =)
Yeah my title looks uppercase but if you copy paste into word it's lower case 8D

Just as a random note, when girls certain girls hear the word wedding, they instantly mega-react. You know the one. Gooey eyes, voice rises up about 2 octaves, and start going "OMG AWWWW WEDDING WEDDING WEDDING AWWW". And I get scared. Like COME ON. Seriously T.T
[EDIT:] Getting excited about shoes and other clothes can be just as annoying, Crystal =)

6 comments:

Crystal said...

STOP GENERALISING!
I don't squeal when I hear "wedding". It's more like "clothes", "shoes", and "sale".
I mean, c'mon :P

Anonymous said...

lol thankyou for enlightening me about le chatelier's principle. i didn't get it when i was bludging chem olympiad training classes last year :)

Gina said...

LOL but clothes and shoes are so exciting!
weddings too, I suppose (:

jwhero said...

HAHA but you know who I'm talking about! Like at Intuition, and he offhandly mentions that he's going to a wedding, and the corner just explodes into OMG A WEDDING AWWWWWW! A WEDDING!

I don't know how many times they repeated it :L

alex said...

clothes and shoes! :D

Anonymous said...

postponing until thurs/fri. until then, peace? or no?

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