K units
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Re: K units
Explaining in a non-chemistry way, K is the ratio of products over reactants. And ratios are just numbers; they don't have units.
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Re: K units
K is a unitless quantity, because it's just a ratio of product over reactants. This also goes into the concept of activities (but that hasn't been really gone over in depth yet)
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Re: K units
The equilibrium constant is actually the activity of the product divided by the activity of the reactant. Calculating the activity is its own separate equation, but in that equation the units actually cancel. Therefore, the activity of the products and reactants have no units making K have no units too.
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Re: K units
For the purpose of this class, K is unitless. But in higher classes, it refers to the "activity" of the reactants and products.
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Re: K units
When you are looking for K is is molarity over molarity, which can cancel out all units. And if it doesn't cancel out all units, imagine the reactants changing to products or products changing to reactancts as activity, and activity is unitless.
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Re: K units
K actually measures the activity of the reaction. For this class, I think we omit the units for simplicity
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Re: K units
K is just a number that is used to show the ratio of products to reactants. I dont think K is ever used in equations so it doesnt need units anyways
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