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200

This is the number of particles contained in one mole of a substance 

What is 6.02 x 1023 particles?

200

This ingredient becomes the limiting reactant when making a milkshake that calls for 1 banana, 1 cup of milk, 5 strawberries, and 4 ice cubes, given that you have 3 bananas, 4 cups of milk, 18 strawberries, and 13 ice cubes 

What are the bananas? 

200

This allows you to convert between quantities of reactants and products in a balanced chemical reaction

What is the mole ratio?

200

These are the types of experimental mistakes or conditions that can cause the actual yield of a reaction to be lower than the theoretical yield.

What are impurities and competing side reactions? 

200

This is the molecular formula of a compound whose empirical formula is NO₂ and whose molar mass is 92 g/mol.

What is N2O4

400

This is the molar mass, in grams per mole, of the compound potassium permanganate

What is 158.04 g/mol?
400

Given the reaction 2Na + Br₂ → 2NaBr, this substance is the limiting reactant when 1.8 moles of sodium react with 1.4 moles of bromine

What is sodium? 

400

In the combustion of methane, this is the mole ratio of methane to water.

What is 1:2?

400

This is the percent composition of oxygen by mass in the compound calcium hydroxide

What is 43.2%?
400

True or False: Increasing the amount of the excess reactant in a chemical reaction will always result in a greater amount of product formed

What is false? 

600

A 4.85 g sample contains 0.20 moles of an unknown element, the element is _______. 

What is magesium? 

600

When 20 molecules of CO react with 30 molecules of O₂ in a flask to form CO₂, this is the amount, in molecules, of the excess reactant that remains after the reaction is complete

What is 20 molecules of O2

600

For the reaction 2 N₂O₅ → O₂ + 4 NO₂, ______ moles of dinitrogen pentoxide are needed to produce 1.60 moles of nitrogen dioxide, and it will produce _____ moles of oxygen.

What is 0.80 mol of N₂O₅ and 0.40 mol of O₂? 

600

This is the mass, in grams, of each component—tin (10%), antimony (16%), and lead (74%)—found in a 500-gram sample of a certain metal alloy.

What are 50g tin, 80g antimony, and 370g lead? 
600

This law states that a chemical compound always contains the same elements in exactly the same proportion by mass, no matter the sample size or source 

What is the law of definite proportions? 
800

This is the total number of atoms present in 0.68 moles of silicon. 

What is 4.09 x 1023

800

According to the reaction CaO + H2O → Ca(OH)2 this is the maximum amount of calcium hydroxide which will be produced from 4.44g of calcium oxide and 7.77g of water 

What is 5.87g? 

800

When sodium fluoride decomposes into sodium and fluorine, a sample produces 28.8 grams of sodium. This is the mass of fluorine, in grams, that must also have been produced

What is 23.8g? 

800

In a small-scale industrial test, 500 grams of carbon disulfide were produced at an 86% yield according to the reaction 3C + 2SO₂ → CS₂ + 2CO₂. This is the theoretical yield, in grams 

What is 581g? 

800

This is the molecular formula of a compound with molar mass 208.5 g/mol and percent composition 14.9% phosphorus and 85.1% chlorine

What is PCl5

1000

This is the total number of atoms present in a 4.67 gram sample of potassium chlorate.

What is 1.15 x 1023 atoms? 

1000

In the reaction 3Fe + 4H₂O → Fe₃O₄ + 4H₂, 84 grams of iron react with 50 grams of water. This is the limiting reactant, and this is the mass of Fe₃O₄ produced

What is Fe and 116g? 

1000

A 20-gram mixture of potassium nitrate and potassium chloride is treated with silver nitrate, producing 8.66 grams of AgCl. These are the percent-by-mass compositions of KNO₃ and KCl in the original mixture. AgNO3 + KCl → AgCl + KNO3

What are 77.5% KNO₃ and 22.5% KCl?

1000

This element, known only as X, forms the oxide X₂O. If X₂O is found to be 25.8% oxygen by mass, this is the identity of element X

What is sodium? 

1000

This is the mole ratio of O2:SiO2 in Si4H10 + O2 → SiO2 + H2

What is 13:8?