units of K

[Katie Bart 1I]

Why does the equilibrium constant not have units?

[BritneyP- 2c]

K doesn't have units because because the products and reactants have the same units so they can cancel out. But if it doesn't cancel out, instead of thinking of concentration or partial pressure, consider transition of reactants to products as activity, which is unitless, so K is unitless

[Christineg1G]

Equilibrium constants don't have units because we used the active masses of the substances, hence why they are unit less/eliminated from the equilibrium constant expression.

[RichBollini4G]

K doesn't have units because because the products and reactants have the same units so they can cancel out. But if it doesn't cancel out, instead of thinking of concentration or partial pressure, consider transition of reactants to products as activity, which is unitless, so K is unitless

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[Suraj Doshi 2G]

K doesn't have units as the actual calculation comes from the chemical activity value. This value is a number without units therefore in the end, K does not have any units associated with it.

[Caitlyn Tran 2E]

We went over this in class a little bit, but there is also a section in the textbook that explains this if you would like to reference this in case my explanation does not make sense. Essentially, the equilibrium constant is the ratio between the activity of the products and the activity of the reactants. Since we are assuming an ideal situation, the activity is equal to the concentration or partial pressure of the products and reactants. While the concentration and partial pressure of substances have units, we leave them out since the activity of products and reactants do not have units. Hope this helps!

[Jialun Chen 4F]

Since it's a constant, not a variable, K does not have a unit. We can also think of this by perceiving the molarity units of products and reactant cancels.

[105335337]

There are no units for K as the units tend to cancel out.

[005321227]

K does not have units. because it is a ratio of products to reactants, and is a constant in the reaction. Also, if you worked out the math in an equilibrium problem K = [P]/[R], and so the molarities cancel out.

[Max Madrzyk Dis 4G]

The equilibrium constant does not have units because they cancel out when you are calculating it.

[Joanne Lee 1J]

When you are finding the K, the units of the products and reactants are either all molarity, partial pressure, etc so all the units will cancel out when K is found.