Chemical reaction equilibrium

Chemical reactions are in dynamical equilibria, which means the individual elementary reactions never cease. But at the macroscopic level, the reaction seems to have come to a stop. How does this happen? This molecular dynamics simulation shows you how. What is interesting about this simulation is that the chemical equilibrium is an emergent behavior from the molecular dynamics simulation.


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