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Educational Technology IV: Stoichiometry: Limiting Reactant and The Reactant in Excess Problem-Solution
Educational Technology IV: Stoichiometry: Limiting Reactant and The Reactant in Excess Problem-Solution
Stoichiometry:
Limiting reactant and the reactant in excess
Problem- Solution
Vygotsky
Objectives
• Students should be able to:
• If you have 10 slices of bread and 3 piece of cheese, you would only be able
to make 3 sandwiches even though you have enough bread to make 5.
• In this example, the cheese is the limiting reagent and the bread is the excess
reagent.
Try it using CK-12
Application:
Determining the limiting reactant in a
reaction
• Copper reacts with sulfur to from copper (I) sulfide according to the
following balanced equation: 2Cu + S Cu2S
1- What is the limiting reactant when 4 moles of Cu reacts with 5 moles
of sulfur?
2- Determine the limiting reactant and the reactant in excess.
Answer:
2 moles of copper reacts with 1 mole of sulfur
If we have 4 moles of copper we need 2 moles of sulfur, but we have 5 moles of
copper copper is the limiting reactant and sulfur is the reactant in excess.