Question

State whether the given statement is a characteristic of equilibrium or not:

All the physical processes stop at equilibrium.

Answer 1

Equilibrium:

• Equilibrium is a dynamic process that represents the state of a process in which the properties like temperature, pressure, and concentration of the system do not show any change with the passage of time.
• In equilibrium, both the forward reaction and the backward reaction occur at equal rates.
• There is always some kind of movement of particles taking place in the reaction.
• Therefore all the physical processes do not stop at equilibrium.

Hence the given statement is not a characteristic of equilibrium.