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2DChemistry
This is toy-model of gas molecules, designed to help you understand high-school level chemical processes and reactions in terms of what's going on at the atomic level.
In this flattened universe, molecules obey simple laws of motion without electrostatics. They have mass and sizes equal to real-world counterparts, although they collide with each other and with the wall boundaries as-if they are rigid bodies.
In addition, molecules can trigger chemical reactions that have been explicitly programmed. This enables you to investigate some common industrial and natural processes via the presets at the top of this panel. All energy barriers and transfers have been reduced to 10% of real-world values so that they can be immediately observed.
Whenever two reactant molecules collide in an acceptable orientation and with sufficient energy, its corresponding product molecules will then be formed. This is collision theory in a nutshell.
As rigid bodies, these molecules have no internal motions; they cannot compress or extend to store elastic energy. Instead, thermal decomposition is permitted only if molecules have sufficient rotational energy to overcome the activation barrier.
On the other hand, the toy molecules will always behave like neutral gases. No molecules can become charged, regardless of the available energy. Molecules like H₂O cannot condense into water droplets or freeze, either.
These rules are all you need to tie together various chemistry and physics concepts commonly encountered before university.
Notes
The standard units are:
- pico/nanometers,
- femto/picoseconds,
- Kelvin,
- kilojoules,
- atomic-mass-units, and
- moles.
If you wish to check values in this toy model against their equivalents in our world, please note that both the energy division and the compression from 3D to 2D will implact most measurements:
- The ideal gas constant in 2D is still 8.314 J K⁻¹ mol⁻¹, once the energy-temperature relationship is redefined as KE = 2/2 RT.
- autoignition temperatures are much lower;
- rates of reaction are vastly accelerated;
- the average speed of gas molecules is reduced;
etc.