Equilibrium: Crash Course Chemistry #28
In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank goes over the ideas of keeping your life balance... well, your chemical life. Equilibrium is all about balance and ...
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Life is all about balance. You want to have a balanced bank account, balanced diet, balance between work and play, and a healthy inner ear to keep you from falling down all the time. And lots of things can mess up that balance. One bad night at the cheesecake factory and you might wake up with your finances, social life, and health out of whack. In science, our word for balance is equilibrium. You've heard of it. When the balance of some natural system gets disrupted, we say that it's out of equilibrium, but that's not always a bad thing, because nature usually finds a way to restore the balance. Like if a population of deer in a forest suddenly goes nuts and there's too many of them, they'll run out of food and space, and predators will move in and the populatio...
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Life is all about balance. You want to have a balanced bank account, balanced diet, balance between work and play, and a healthy inner ear to keep you from falling down all the time. And lots of things can mess up that balance. One bad night at the cheesecake factory and you might wake up with your finances, social life, and health out of whack. In science, our word for balance is equilibrium. You've heard of it. When the balance of some natural system gets disrupted, we say that it's out of equilibrium, but that's not always a bad thing, because nature usually finds a way to restore the balance. Like if a population of deer in a forest suddenly goes nuts and there's too many of them, they'll run out of food and space, and predators will move in and the populatio...
