Adding Inert Gas

[Labiba Sardar 2A]

What's the effect of adding an inert gas to a reaction at equilibrium? I know it has something to do with the pressure and volume, but I don't remember which of these are affected.

[Sebastian Lee 1L]

Adding an inert gas will increase the pressure of a system. However, it does NOT affect the equilibrium of a reaction because there is no change in concentration which means Q does not change. Adding an inert gas will not shift a reaction towards products or reactants.

[ABombino_2J]

Adding an inert gas increases the pressure of the system but will not affect the equilibrium constant K or Q because these gases do not react easily because they have a full octet

[Joanne Lee 1J]

Adding an inert gas will change the pressure of the system but not the K or Q value of the reaction.

[Harry Zhang 1B]

Adding an inert gas will not have effect on the system because the inert gas does not participate in the actual chemical reaction and does not change the partial pressure or the volume(therefore concentration) of the reactants and products.

[Aarushi Solanki 4F]

Adding inert gases increases the pressure of the system but doesn't affect the concentrations at equilibrium.

[Bryan Chen 1H]

It increases pressure, but it has no effect on the reaction because volume stays the same and therefore the concentrations of species also do

[505306205]

Adding an inert gas does not shift the reaction because it doesn't react with any of the reactants or products so the concentrations of each don't change.

[Jialun Chen 4F]

Adding an inert gas (noble gases or gases that's not present in the reaction) increases the pressure of the system, but alters no concentration, thus having no effect on the overall reaction.

[Ashley Alvarado 2C]

When an inert gas is added, the pressure does increase, but there is no change in the concentrations of the products and the reactants. Because of this there is no effect on the reaction.

[Diana Andrade_4F]

Adding an inert gas doesn’t affect the equilibrium constant

[Michelle Song 1I]

Adding an inert gas will not cause the reaction to shift in either direction.

[Nuoya Jiang]

It has no effect because adding an inert gas would not change the concentration/partial pressure of the reactants and products.

[AronCainBayot2K]

Adding an inert gas increases the pressure of the system but in terms of equilibrium it has no effect. Only temperature can do that as it forces the reaction to favor one side or the other.

[Rebekah Alfred 1J]

Increasing the pressure of a system with an inert gas does not affect the equilibrium constant. Some examples of inert gases are Helium (He), Argon (Ar), Neon (Ne), Krypton (Kr), and Xenon (Xe).

[Kaylee Clarke 1G]

adding an inert gas does not change the equilibrium constant for a system, but it will affect the pressure

[Jamie Lee 1F]

Adding an inert gas does not change the equilibrium constant.

[Veronica Lu 2H]

adding an inert gas does not create a change

[Manav Govil 1B]

Additional inert Gases don't cause a shift in equilibrium, as they are not necessarily part of the reaction.

[CalvinTNguyen2D]

Because inert gases are not technically a part of the equation, they have no effect on the reaction equilibrium.

[Gurmukhi Bevli 4G]

Adding an inert gas will change the pressure of the system (increase it), but will not affect the K and Q values (does not change the equilibrium concentration), and will not have an effect on the overall reaction.