Equilibrium Project
Concepts
Chemical Equilibrium is when both the reactants and the products of an equation change at the same rate, pretty much means that the reactants can become products just as much as the products can become the reactants. When stress (i.e. increase in compounds, change in temperature, etc.) is applied to one side of the equation, the equilibrium is shifted in order to try and keep balance, this often ends up in a side being favored over the other, depending on the type of stress. To restore equilibrium is to restore the equation to its default settings, usually meaning you add something to whatever side needs to be balanced. For example, with CO poisoning, whenever CO is introduced to the Hemoglobin in our blood, it removes the Oxygen, which we need to live. This ruins our bodies equilibrium causing catastrophic consequences. Fortunately all we need to do to restore equilibrium is to introduce Oxygen back into the blood stream and it removes the CO from the Hemoglobin. Reflection I enjoyed this assignment, mostly because I was able to find my chemical equation pretty quickly and was then able to work on my infographic. I enjoyed the website I used to make my graphic, worked a lot like weebly, however getting it off the site was a pain because I would've needed a premium account to download the graphic document, I ended up just screenshotting it on my phone which explains why it's in two parts. I also enjoyed researching this subject because it had interesting things written about it. I did not enjoy trying to find the equilibrium equation for my first idea which was something about adrenaline and that was a pain in the neck. I do feel like I learned a lot about infographic creation and Carbon Monoxide poisoning. The time management for this project went really well, especially when I figured out the equilibrium equation, which was about 50% of the difficulty of this project. All in all, this was a nice project. |