n A reaction in which a state of equilibrium has been reached, and it can be made to proceed in one direction or another by adjusting the conditions. Conditions which affect the direction of a reaction are the concentrations of the reactants involved and the temperature and the pressure. (Whitten KW, Davis RE, Davis E, Peck LM, Stanley GG (1994) General chemistry, Brookes/Cole, New York).
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Balanced Reaction. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_1007
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