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The Demonstration can be regarded as representing either a unimolecular process (e.g. a conformational change in a protein switch) or a schematic of a more general chemical reaction, in which case one can regard the red state as the reactants and the blue state as the products. Because the Demonstration is intended for instructional purposes, the positions of the entities have been fixed to make it easy to detect their change of state.

Snapshot 1: You can select either 50 or 500 total particles using the reset buttons. Use 50 to study the effects of transition probability on individual particles and use 500 for smoother graphs.

Snapshot 2: Set the "probability blue to red" to zero in order to simulate the simple case of exponential decay, half life, and so on.

Snapshot 3: After equilibrium is established, you can increase the ratio of red to blue and note the temporary increase in forward flux, until equilibrium is reestablished. This demonstrates Le Chatelier's principle.