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What is the name of the compound

with the chemical formula CrCl 3
A. chromium tetrachloride
B. chromium trichloride
C.chromium(II) chloride
D.chromium(III) chloride
 Limiting Reactants

Why do reactions stop?

When one of the reactants is used up
completely, the reaction stops
 Limiting Reactants
The reactant that is used up is called the
LIMITING REACTANT (LR)
The reactant that remains behind (or left
over) is called the EXCESS REACTANT (ER)
A reaction cannot produce any more product
that the limiting reactant will allow
 Steps for Limiting Reactant
1) Determine the amount of product that
each reactant produces
• In other words, convert each of the givens
to the same product
2) The reactant that produces the least
amount of product is the limiting reagent
 Example
Determine the amount of tetraphosphorus
decoxide formed if 25.0 g of P4 and 50.0 g of
O2 are combined.
P4 + 5 O2  P4O10
 Practice
At high temperatures, sulfur combines with iron
to form the brown-black iron (II) sulfide:
 Fe (s) + S (l)  FeS (s)
In one experiment, 7.62 g of Fe are allowed to react
with 8.67 g of S.

1)What is the limiting reactant, and what is the

reactant in excess?
2) Calculate the mass of FeS formed.
 More Practice
Arcylonitrile, C3H3N, is the starting material for the
production of a kind of synthetic fiber and can be made
from propylene, C3H6, by reaction with nitric oxide, NO, as
follows:
4 C3H6 + 6 NO  4 C3H3N + 6 H2O + N2

What is the limiting reactant and what mass of C3H3N can be

made when 21.6 g of C3H6 react with 21.6 g of nitric oxide?
 Percent Yield
Percent Yield is the ratio of the actual yield to the theoretical yield
expressed as a percent

% Yield =   mass of Actual Yield  x   100%

                    mass of Theoretical Yield        
 Example:
In an experiment, 45.0 g of H2 are reacted with
excess O2 to form water. A chemist collects 381
g of H2O. What is the percent yield?
 Example 2:
In an experiment, 37.5 g of Na are reacted with
excess F2 to form NaF. A chemist collects 58.2 g of
NaF. What is the percent yield?

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