What are limiting reactants?
1 Answer
Aug 30, 2017
Limiting reactants or limiting reagents decide the amount of product formed and the amount of excess reagent used.
Explanation:
A limiting reactant is that reactant that is completely used up in a reaction. It is found out by dividing the stoichiometric coefficients of the given reactants with the number of moles used.For example,
In the reaction below, if we take
For
ratio is
For
ratio is
The ratio for