RICE Box
Definition
A RICE box is a tool used in chemistry to organize and calculate the changes in concentrations of reactants and products during a chemical reaction. It stands for Reactants, Initial Concentration, Change in Concentration, and Equilibrium Concentration.
Analogy
Think of a RICE box as your personal organizer when you're cleaning up your room. You have different sections for clothes (Reactants), how messy it initially was (Initial Concentration), how much you cleaned up (Change in Concentration), and what it looks like after cleaning (Equilibrium Concentration).
Related terms
Chemical Reaction: A process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
Concentration: The measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance.
Equilibrium: The state in which both reactants and products are present at concentrations which have no further tendency to change with time.
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