Most Common Chemistry Final Exam Question: Limiting Reactants Review

This Chemistry review covers a common final exam question/ topic. We'll go over how to find the limiting reactant, excess reactant, theoretical yield, percent yield, actual yield and how to find the amount of excess left over.
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  • @sanaajennings6285
    @sanaajennings62855 жыл бұрын

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    @sanaajennings6285

    5 жыл бұрын

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    @spider-mancantsee5875

    4 жыл бұрын

    What I should’ve done now I have a 59 and need to do well on the final so watching this and writing facts down to study till then

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    4 жыл бұрын

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    3 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    @adriennejengmanato22595 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this Melissa!😍 I now slightly understand stoichiometry👏

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    My Chemistry 101 final is on Wednesday (it's Monday...) and I only had like three days to prepare for it so binging your youtube channel has been a bigger help than my own professor. I'm finally understanding all these concepts without spending like four hours on one topic! Thank you SO much for including practice problems you're the reason I might not fail.

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    4 жыл бұрын

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    Жыл бұрын

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  • @jenny030916
    @jenny0309164 жыл бұрын

    This is AMAZING! Thank you so much Melissa😊

  • @alexandrakwasnik5868
    @alexandrakwasnik58683 жыл бұрын

    I have a chemistry final exam tomorrow for Gen Chem 1. I didn't know stoichiometry or limiting reactant, however, from watching your videos, I not understand both! a MASSIVE thank you! I feel way more confident going into my exam and I am definitely going to keep watching your videos!

  • @toastom

    @toastom

    3 жыл бұрын

    How did it go?

  • @mimimo6223
    @mimimo62233 жыл бұрын

    This really took a long time for me to understand the limiting reactants and finding each yield and excess reactants to percentages lol but thank you so much this really helped me greatly.

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    @briannamainolfi47043 жыл бұрын

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    @jhanelljacks99324 жыл бұрын

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    @rahulrathod170

    4 жыл бұрын

    hope you're test went well. Writing mine tomorrow. All the best for the future

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    @aquarxus48945 жыл бұрын

    Hi sorry this is unrelated but in regards to chemistry if we wanted to investigate the affect of concentration of rate reaction how will we do so with: HCL and Antacid in this case we have to do a prac where we need to put our results in a graph where we vary the concentrations of the HCL from 0.1 m 0.5 m 1m but maintain the antacid so far I have plotted just the times of when the reaction is done but I don’t know how to record the rest in order to make a graph?

  • @theifking1
    @theifking13 жыл бұрын

    How did you get 163g Fe2O3 for the used? I keep getting 653g

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    @quinnobrien86023 жыл бұрын

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  • @user-le3xf3hi6u
    @user-le3xf3hi6u Жыл бұрын

    What if it says mixed with ? the wording is tripping me up because I don't know if I have to add the two given numbers in grams and then set the problem up or am I still solving for one? In the reaction given below, 35.2 g of bromine (Br2) is MIXED with 23.1 g of phosphorus (P) to produce phosphorus tribromide (PBr3). What are the limiting reactant and the theoretical yield, in grams, of phosphorus tribromide?

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    @mohammadschool19682 жыл бұрын

    how do you know what product to choose from if u have 2 of em

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    @namasteayla3 жыл бұрын

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  • @konstantinrebrov675
    @konstantinrebrov6754 жыл бұрын

    Theoretical yield is the quantity of a product obtained from the complete conversion of the limiting reactant in a chemical reaction. It is the amount of product resulting from a perfect (theoretical) chemical reaction, and thus not the same as the amount you'll actually get from a reaction in the lab. Theoretical yield is commonly expressed in terms of grams or moles. In contrast to theoretical yield, the actual yield is the amount of product actually produced by a reaction. Actual yield is usually a smaller quantity because few chemical reactions proceed with 100% efficiency because of loss recovering the product and because other reactions may be occurring that reduce the product. Sometimes an actual yield is more than a theoretical yield, possibly because of a secondary reaction that yields additional product or because the recovered product contains impurities.

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  • @melissamaribel

    @melissamaribel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Michelle 😊💕

  • @phoenixjohnson3149
    @phoenixjohnson31499 ай бұрын

    When I did this on my own for some reason my brain said find the molar mass of 2Fe because on the product side the coefficient was 2.. its like throwing me off a bit and i don't understand why

  • @jeanalik6978
    @jeanalik69784 жыл бұрын

    There is an easier way of working out the limiting reactant. Just find the moles of both reactants and use the molar ratio to compare both reactants. The reactant with fewer moles is gonna be your limiting reactant.

  • @melissamaribel

    @melissamaribel

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yep that works too, I just like getting to the grams because most questions ask for the theoretical yield and students forget how to get there. So I like showing you one way that answers two questions.

  • @jeanalik6978

    @jeanalik6978

    4 жыл бұрын

    Melissa Maribel Ahh I understand. However wouldn’t finding the limiting reactant by moles be more effective as you exclude the other reactant for the second part of the question.

  • @melissamaribel

    @melissamaribel

    4 жыл бұрын

    Both are effective, if you prefer stopping at moles then do that. The important part is that you understand how to get there 👍

  • @Flaystray
    @Flaystray2 ай бұрын

    Knowing what percent yield actually is solidifed my faith in chemistry

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    @mido92i194 жыл бұрын

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  • @melissamaribel

    @melissamaribel

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @4JUVIE
    @4JUVIE4 жыл бұрын

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  • @courtneyminnoe7619
    @courtneyminnoe76192 жыл бұрын

    So if you start with finding Fe instead of CO2 the first time you would have to continue finding Fe in the second one?

  • @nonjabulomacu9277
    @nonjabulomacu92775 жыл бұрын

    So...is percentage yield accuracy, how close you were to achieving the perfect scenario or compound? Edit: Nevermind, asked too soon.

  • @WOG18
    @WOG184 жыл бұрын

    Can you please explain how you got 116.8g

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    @kelvinksimwawa41382 жыл бұрын

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    @chandrapriyan59725 жыл бұрын

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    @melissamaribel

    5 жыл бұрын

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    @juanmartin79023 жыл бұрын

    my final is tomorrow lol goodluck to all!

  • @whowas1203
    @whowas12032 жыл бұрын

    OH my god i really thought i was going to wing it because i could not save my life doing these problems. I understand it a little bit more and i think I'm buying the notes chem 2 if i pass

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    @Chembynlsir2 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    @stellalee29463 жыл бұрын

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  • @emily6869
    @emily68694 жыл бұрын

    I am not sure why, but on the conversion os CO to Fe, why is the grams of Fe only 55.85g? In the reactants it is 2Fe, so why was the molar mass not done 2Fe, only 1Fe? Is it because that is just converting it back to grams? So the Fe is only one because that is the conversion done? The rest totally helped me. Before, I didn't even know where to start. This clarifies limiting reactant problems so much.

  • @melissamaribel

    @melissamaribel

    4 жыл бұрын

    For molar mass it's only 1 mole of that element or that compound, so for Fe we are not looking at the mole to mole ratio or the balanced equation instead we only want 1 mole of Fe = molar mass of just 1 Fe.

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    @emily6869

    4 жыл бұрын

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    @lsnickysfiso45805 жыл бұрын

    Someone please help would appreciate If magnessium burns in the air to form magnessium oxide accordingly to the following balanced equation 2 Mg +O2->2Mg If the percentage yield of this reaction is only 80% calculate the mass of magnessium that needs to be burned to produce 30g of magnessium oxide

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    @melissamaribel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hey there, did you still need help with this question?

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    5 жыл бұрын

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  • @melissamaribel

    @melissamaribel

    5 жыл бұрын

    You are a given the percent yield of 80% and the actual yield of 30 g MgO 1)Start with finding the theoretical yield by plugging the percent yield and actual yield into the percent yield formula shown at 23:29. 2) After you found your theoretical yield of MgO you will work your way back to grams of Mg. So you'll go from grams of MgO to mol MgO to mol Mg to grams of Mg and you are done. Make sense?

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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