just a wild guess, there's a good chance will took 1 of your snacks during the HCl controversy
he def nabbed one of mine, even tho i was right
Ask a mod! I have never ever taken a scooby snack before from anyone (I was one of the people to give you a snack, syko!)!!! I don't care if you guys took mine last night, scooby snacks are the last thing on my mind.
Please read what lemonoman said:
The reaction is reversible. The WHOLE time you have an HCl-in-water mixture, I don't care what concentration it is...HCl molecules will be dissociating into H+ (as H3O+) and Cl- ... just as H+ and Cl- will be simultaneously recombining somewhere else. The EQUILIBRIUM that is set up comes to rest (as in, no change occurs...but the equilibrium exists) at a point where most (i.e. 99.7%) of the HCl molecules you put in are in dissociated form.
It is just one of those boring facts of chemistry that you'll have to learn, and accept it even if you don't yet understand it.
Here are some notes on this subject from the University of British Columbia :
http://www.chem.ubc.ca/courseware/pH/. The notes under section 1 explain why it is an equilibrium very clearly. Hope this helps
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