Question #bb0ad
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Oxygen gas will act as a limiting reagent.
Explanation:
The balanced chemical equation that describes your reaction looks like this
#4"NH"_ (3(g)) + 5"O"_ (2(g)) -> 4"NO"_ ((g)) + 6"H"_ 2"O"_ ((l))#
Notice that the reaction consumes
In your case, you know that
More specifically, you know that
#1 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole NH"_3))) * overbrace("5 moles O"_2/(4color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles NH"_3)))))^(color(blue)("given by the balanced chemical equation")) = "1.25 moles O"_2#
Since you only have
The reaction will consume
#1 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole O"_2))) * "4 moles NH"_3/(5color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles O"_2)))) = "0.8 moles NH"_3#
The remaining
#overbrace("1 mole NH"_3 )^(color(blue)("what you start with"))- overbrace("0.8 moles NH"_3)^(color(blue)("consumed by the raction")) = overbrace("0.2 moles NH"_3)^(color(blue)("in excess"))#
will not take part in the reaction.
Moreover, the reaction will produce
#1 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole O"_2))) * "4 moles NO"/(5color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles O"_2)))) = "0.8 moles NO"#
and
#1 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mole O"_2))) * ("6 moles H"_2"O")/(5color(red)(cancel(color(black)("moles O"_2)))) = "1.2 moles H"_2"O"#