Finding Limiting Reagents (3.3.3)

Question 1

What is the Limiting Reagent?

Answer 1

The smallest stoichiometric substance which will run out first.

Question 2

• When two or more reagents are combined in a chemical reaction, one of them is the limiting reagent and will run out before the others (unless there are
stoichiometric amounts of each).

Answer 2

• When two or more reagents are combined in a chemical reaction, one of them is the limiting reagent and will run out before the others (unless there are
stoichiometric amounts of each).

Question 3

• Determining how much product can be formed from the balanced chemical equation and the amounts of reagents available is the basis for the limiting reagent
problem in chemistry.

Answer 3

• Determining how much product can be formed from the balanced chemical equation and the amounts of reagents available is the basis for the limiting reagent
problem in chemistry.