Understandings
Applications and skills:
Guidance:
When a chemical system at equilibrium is disturbed, it returns to equilibrium by counteracting the disturbance.
Figure 1. (a) The test tube contains 0.1 M Fe3+. (b) Thiocyanate ion has been added to solution in (a), forming the red Fe(SCN)2+ ion. Fe3+(aq) + SCN−(aq) ⇌ Fe(SCN)2+(aq). (c) Silver nitrate has been added to the solution in (b), precipitating some of the SCN− as the white solid AgSCN. Ag+(aq) + SCN−(aq) ⇌ AgSCN(s). The decrease in the SCN−concentration shifts the first equilibrium in the solution to the left, decreasing the concentration (and lightening color) of the Fe(SCN)2+.