Question

What happens to the concentration of the reactants and products during the course of a forward chemical reaction

Answer 1

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The concentration of the reactants decreases and the concentration of products increases during the course of a forward chemical reaction.

A chemical reaction is a thermodynamical process in which two or more substances (called reagents) undergo transformation by the breaking and rearrangement of their chemical bonds to form another substance(s), called products. In a forward chemical reaction, the reagents are being consumed, so their concentration will decrease, increasing the concentration of products as they are the result of the reaction. 

The study of how concentration changes with time in a chemical reaction is called reaction kinetics. 

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