Eli5: What is chemical equilibrium?

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My nephew loves asking me science things, mostly because I always find a fun analogy to explain. Today I was explaining from where comes the gas of soda and I bumped with the concept of chemical equilibrium and he asked about that. Now I’m trying to find a creative analogy to explain chemical equilibrium to him the next time we meet.

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A non-chemical analogy might be like when you put a kitten and a puppy who don’t know each other in the same room. At first, there will likely be some kind of reaction, but eventually they may learn to co-exist and ignore each other completely. Or if you expose a pet to a toy too much, they may get bored of it and stop responding.

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