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Limiting Reactants: the reactant that limits the amount of the other reactant that can combine and the amount of product that can form in a chemical reaction
Excess Reactant: substance that is not used up completely in a reaction

When solving problems with chemical reactions and converting grams to moles/ moles to grams/ etc., set up a single equation so that you only round once.

6 comments:

  1. This is a website that helps you practice balancing chemical equations.

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  2. here is a great website that has Limiting Reagent Problems :

    http://www.chem.lsu.edu/lucid/tutorials/lim.htm

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  3. heres a site that explains limiting and excess reactans

    http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/majors/tutorialnotefiles/limiting.htm

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  4. Here's a good video on how to solve problems with limiting reactants

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxFZ1JWmsi0

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  5. Website on more stuff about reactions and reactants.

    http://www.chemtutor.com/react.htm

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  6. http://web.fccj.edu/~ksanchez/flash/corwin/LimReactant.html

    Some visual concepts about limiting and excess reactants.

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