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Mistake Master · AP Chemistry · Unit 7 · Step-Through Animation

The Pile Grows. The Solution Does Not.

You'll learnwhy a saturated solution is still busy, and how to get solubility out of Ksp.

Stir silver chloride into water until no more will dissolve and the beaker goes quiet. It has not stopped, and the number printed in the data table is not the answer to “how much dissolves” — you have to work that out. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · AgCl(s) ⇌ Ag⁺(aq) + Cl⁻(aq) · Ksp = [Ag⁺][Cl⁻] · v4

a quiet beaker that never stops trading ions
Before you start
What you're looking at
A beaker of water with silver chloride stirred in: a pile on the floor, a few ions dissolved.
The question
No more will dissolve and the beaker is still. Is anything actually still happening?
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