The second lecture my class had on stoichiometry was to find which reactant in a compound was the limiting reagent. In layman's terms, the limiting reagent is the compound that is totally used up in a chemical reaction, all other compounds are the excess reactants.
I find that this picture really helps explain exactly what is going on. Basically it shows that no matter how many tires there are, if their are only eight car bodies, only 8 cars can be made. The 16 extra tires is the excess reactant. This website shows the math and what is going on and links to a few practice problems.
The Graph and link/explanation gave me a really good feeling on what I'm doing to find limiting reagent and excess reagent.
ReplyDeleteThis picture really makes it a lot simpler to understand and more relatable , and the practice problems were useful as well.
ReplyDeleteThis picture really deepened my understanding and I really was able to understand this concept more after viewing this post! Thank you!
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