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17. Chemical reactions in the body are often irreversible because if they can be made, they can be broken and vice versa. Reversibility is indicated by a double arrow and when the arrows differ in length, the longer arrow indicates the major direction in which the reaction proceeds. When the arrows are of equal length, neither the forward reaction nor the reverse reaction is dominant. When this occurs, the reaction is said to be at chemical equilibrium.