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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In every chemical reaction you have reactants and products. The system is in equilibrium when the reaction is no longer happening, i.e. when you run out of at least one of the necessary reactants.

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