39Inert gas doesn't react with the contents of the system. So it's a volume increase?
what is the effect of adding inert gas at constant pressure to a system?
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1it causes the system to move in direction of larger no of gaseous molecules bcoz in this process , the volume is allowed to increase ,so, the partial pressures of all gases would be decreased resulting in a shift towards the side with the greater number of moles of gas.
1it depends on the value of change in the number of moles of the chemical reaction.....
1addition of an inert gas only increases the volume ....
so Δn>0 then in the expression of equilibrium constant volume appears in the denominator and therefore eq constant decreases and so forward reaction is favoured ....
and similarly when Δn<0 then volume is in the numerator and so increase in volume increases the eq constant and so backward reaction is favoured ....
when Δn=0 there is no effect of adittion of inert gas .......
