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balanced reaction

German translation: ausgeglichene Gleichung/Reaktion


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English term or phrase:balanced reaction
German translation:ausgeglichene Gleichung/Reaktion
Entered by: Manuela Junghans
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12:08 Oct 16, 2005
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Science - Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng / chemical kinetics
English term or phrase: balanced reaction
Es geht hier um die Reaktionskinetik, genauer um die damit zusammenhängenden Reaktionsgeschwindigkeiten.

In equation xxx uppercase letters indicate a chemical species and lowercase letters represent the stoichiometric coefficient for the species in the *balanced reaction*. The species on the left-hand and right-hand sides of the arrow are referred to as reactants and products, respectively.

Ernst liefert für "balanced reaction" "unvollständige/unvollständig verlaufende Reaktion", aber das widerspricht so ein bisschen meiner Vorstellung von "balanced". Kann das tatsächlich unvollständig sein? Danke im voraus.
Manuela Junghans
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:18
ausgeglichene Gleichung
Explanation:
(stöchiometrisch) ausgeglichene Gleichung, d.h. Gleichung mit Koeffizienten

meaning that the numbers jive on either side of the equation.


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Note added at 1 hr 3 mins (2005-10-16 13:12:12 GMT)
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BTW, strictly speaking it's not the reaction that's balanced, but the equation
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Cilian O'Tuama
Local time: 02:18
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That´s it Cilian. Thanks for your hard Sunday work :-) and thanks to the others as well.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1ausgeglichene Gleichung
Cilian O'Tuama
4ausgeglichene Reaktion(sgleichung)sjkm
4umkehrbare Reaktion
Brie Vernier


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umkehrbare Reaktion


Explanation:
lt. Kucera WB d. Chemie (gibt auch reversible Reaktion und Gleichgewichtsreaktion an)

Und Wikipedia dazu:

Das Chemische Gleichgewicht gehört zur Gruppe der dynamischen Gleichgewichte.

Grundsätzlich kann sich bei umkehrbaren chemischen Reaktionen ein Gleichgewicht einstellen.

Bei umkehrbaren (reversiblen) Reaktionen können Hin- und Rückreaktion ablaufen.

Reaktionen, die einen Gleichgewichtszustand einnehmen können, werden als Gleichgewichtsreaktionen bezeichnet.


    Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichgewichtsreaktion
Brie Vernier
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Olaf Jansen: Gleichgewichtsreaktion ist die geläufigste Bezeichnung
24 mins
  -> Danke, Olaf
disagree  Cilian O'Tuama: here they're talking about balancing the equations which represent equilibrium reactions, and not about the reactions themselves//but it's about the mathematics (reaction rates, kinetics) not the chemistry (G'night)
53 mins
  -> but the equation merely serves to describe "the reactions themselves"
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ausgeglichene Gleichung


Explanation:
(stöchiometrisch) ausgeglichene Gleichung, d.h. Gleichung mit Koeffizienten

meaning that the numbers jive on either side of the equation.


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Note added at 1 hr 3 mins (2005-10-16 13:12:12 GMT)
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BTW, strictly speaking it's not the reaction that's balanced, but the equation

Cilian O'Tuama
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That´s it Cilian. Thanks for your hard Sunday work :-) and thanks to the others as well.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  sjkm: see also: library.thinkquest.org/C004970/redox/balance.htm or google "to balance a reaction", you will see it is used synonymous with "to balance and equation", maybe only in American English? I have often heard it in chem classes here
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ausgeglichene Reaktion(sgleichung)


Explanation:
balancing a reaction means the same as balancing an equation,
apparently, in German as well one can "eine Reaktion ausgleichen" or "eine Gleichung ausgleichen" so you could either use "ausgeglichene Reaktion" oder "ausgeglichene Reaktionsgleichung" (Link 2 supports Reaktionsgleichung ausgleichen as well as Reaktion ausgleichen). You also have an example there for these upper and lowercase equations.


    Reference: http://partisans.spurious.biz/~pkremer/projects/chemglobe/ge...
    Reference: http://chimge.unil.ch/De/thermo/ressources/ThermocDe.pdf
sjkm
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