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for this when you increase the pressure what will happen, as in would it shift left and produce more solid c and h20?
 

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Pretty sure that yeah it'll shift to the left, since

increase pressure -> increase concentration of all gases -> Le Chetalier's -> minimise change in concentration -> favour reverse reaction -> shift to left
 

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What would that mean for the reactants tho
 

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Shifting to one side means that the equilibrium will produce more of the species on that side.

So there would be more water & solid carbon in the equilibrium
 

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but you can't increase the concentration of a solid or liquid tho
 

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but you can't increase the concentration of a solid or liquid tho
i didn't say the concentration of a solid or liquid increases, i just said more of it is made.
because for a solid or liquid the concentration is fixed; a particular amount occupies a certain amount of space
for an aqueous substance or a gas, more particles of the substance can (usually) be put in the same amount of space - hence the concentration increases. But this doesn't hold for solids or liquids

In reality what this would look like is that you would be able to see the pile of carbon & water settled at the bottom of the container increase a little bit
 

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The reaction shown here is the famous steam reformer reaction, in which carbon reduces water to carbon monoxide and elemental hydrogen. In actual fact, this reaction is carried out over a bed of red-hot charcoal at about 900 Celsius, and the water is introduced as steam.
 

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