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A product is a substance that forms as a result of a biological
Biological

The word biological may refer to:*Adjectival form of "biology", the study of life*Biological , a biological preparation that is synthesized from living organisms or their products and used medically as a diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic agent....
- or chemical reaction
Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that always results in the interconversion of chemical substances. The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants....
. While the end product of some chemical reactions may be the result of a relatively rapid reaction, nanoseconds to seconds, chemical equilibria
Chemical equilibrium

In a chemical process, chemical equilibrium is the state in which the Activity or concentrations of the reactants and products have no net change over time....
 in complex systems may require years or even centuries to be established. For example, equilibria in groundwater
Groundwater

Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil porosity spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water....
 systems with multiple components are achieved on timescales of millennia, if ever. When a chemical change occurs, reactants are rearranged.






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A product is a substance that forms as a result of a biological
Biological

The word biological may refer to:*Adjectival form of "biology", the study of life*Biological , a biological preparation that is synthesized from living organisms or their products and used medically as a diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic agent....
- or chemical reaction
Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that always results in the interconversion of chemical substances. The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants....
. While the end product of some chemical reactions may be the result of a relatively rapid reaction, nanoseconds to seconds, chemical equilibria
Chemical equilibrium

In a chemical process, chemical equilibrium is the state in which the Activity or concentrations of the reactants and products have no net change over time....
 in complex systems may require years or even centuries to be established. For example, equilibria in groundwater
Groundwater

Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil porosity spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water....
 systems with multiple components are achieved on timescales of millennia, if ever. When a chemical change occurs, reactants are rearranged. The result of these rearrangements is the formation of new, different substances (products)also properly having the effect on mutation.