How to Find Limiting Reactants | How to Pass Chemistry

Just because these reactants are limited doesn’t mean your understanding will be! Limiting reactants or limiting reagents are explained in a simple, quick and visually pleasing way to help simplify Chemistry. This video shows step by step examples of limiting reactants and when to convert moles to grams and grams to moles. This will help you ace that stoichiometry section of your exam!

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here is a summary:
Limiting reactant -->The reactant that runs out the fastest
Theoretical yield --> Whatever the reactant is able to produce
Steps to find the limiting reactant
1. Convert grams of each reactant to grams of the product
a. Start with given, convert to moles using molar mass, then convert the mol to mol using reacting ratio. Lastly, convert mol to grams using molar mass
2. The reactant that produces the least amount of product is the limiting reactant
a. Compare the grams of the reactants and determine what produced the least amount

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