Le Chatelier's principle

Principle to predict effects of a change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium

In chemistry, Le Chatelier's principle (pronounced UK: or US:) is a principle used to predict the effect of a change in conditions on chemical equilibrium. Other names include Chatelier's principle, Braun–Le Chatelier principle, Le Chatelier–Braun principle or the equilibrium law. The principle is named after French chemist Henry Louis Le Chatelier, who enunciated the principle in 1884 by extending the reasoning from the Van 't Hoff relation of how temperature variations changes the equilibrium to the variations of pressure and what's now called chemical potential, and sometimes also credited to Karl Ferdinand Braun, who discovered it independently in 1887.

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