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When you saturate water with table salt, you add so much salt to the water that all of the salt cannot dissolve. Although you may think nothing much is happening in this saturated solution, at the molecular level, there is constant activity, with sodium chloride dissolving and sodium chloride precipitating constantly.
Chemical equilibrium is a car in motion. When you start the car and the equilibrium is shifted more towards the product. Car starts and close to equilibrium. When you accelerate you want the chemicals to combine to accelerate. When you get to the point of happy with your speed it shifts back to the left.
When two objects are separately in thermodynamic equilibrium with a third object, they are in equilibrium with each other.
Heterogeneous equilibrium is the decomposition of calcium carbonate for the production of lime, a process that involves the application of heat.
If equilibrium shifts to the right, the concentration of the reactants would decrease, and the concentration of the products would increase.
