Here is how my textbook proves that dissolution of solid in liquid is dynamic in nature. It considers the example of a saturated solution of sugar. It says that,
Though the solution is in equilibrium, the process of dissolution of sugar and crystallization of sugar takes place continuously and also at the same rate. This can be confirmed with the help of radioactive sugar. If we drop some radioactive sugar into saturated solution of non-radioactive sugar, then after some time radioactivity is observed both in the solution and in the solid sugar. Initially there were no radioactive sugar molecules in the solution but due to dynamic nature of equilibrium, there is exchange between the radioactive and non-radioactive sugar molecules between the two phases.
It also proves the dynamic nature of chemical equilibrium in a similar way.
From this proof, my argument is that dynamic nature of equilibrium is proved only by adding another substance. This disturbs the equilibrium. It is possible that the saturated solution was in static equilibrium but addition of this substance has led to the dynamic nature.
I do not find it logical to prove that it is dynamic by the process of disturbing it.
Is this proof invalid or am I going wrong in my arguments?
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