Chemistry · Chapter 15

The Common Ion Effect

Add an ion the salt already makes and solubility falls. Slide the added amount and watch the curve drop. The solver here uses the full expression, so you can see exactly when the usual shortcut starts to lie.

Solubility against added ion both axes are log scales

Molar solubility falling as a common ion is added solubility in pure water added common ion (mol/L) solubility (mol/L) the full expression, not the shortcut

Pick a salt

Which ion do you add?

The slider moves in powers of ten, so one end is a trace and the other is half a mole per liter.

Live numbers

1.8e-9mol/L pushed down

What you are seeing

le chatelier at work
AgCl with added chloride