Limiting and Excess Reactants
CONVERSIONS
DEFINITIONS
Balancing Equations
Stoich Problems
100

Which reactant, limiting or excess, is used to calculate the amount of product? 

What is the limiting reactant?

100

What unit should go on the top of the conversion factor? 

The unit of the unknown (what you are trying to find).

100

The calculations done with the balanced equations to find the quatities of reactants or products. 

What is Stoichiometry?

100

The correct coefficients for the reaction: 

___Mg + ___Fe2O3 -->  ___MgO + ____Fe

3 Mg + __1_Fe2O3 -->  __3_MgO + __2__Fe

100

2 H2 + O2  --> 2 H2O

How many moles of O2 will be used if 9 moles of H2O are produced? 

What is 4.5 moles of O2?

200

When is it necesarry to find the limiting reactant? 

When there are two given amounts of reactants and none are in excess.

200

What conversion factor do you use when you convert moles to moles?

What is Mole Ratio.

200

The ratio of reactants/products found by coefficients in a balanced equation.

What is Ideal Mole Ratio.

200

The correct coefficients for the reaction: 

___HgO  -->  ___Hg + ____O2


_2__HgO  -->  _2__Hg + ____O2

200

2 Fe2O3 --> 4 Fe + 3 O2

How many moles of Fe2O3 will form from 5.0 moles of Fe?

What is 2.5 moles Fe2O3

300

Fe3O4 + 4 CO--->3 Fe + 4 CO2

If you were given 6 moles of CO and 4 moles of Fe3O4, which would be your limiting reactant? 

Limiting reactant is CO. 

300

What conversion factor do you use when you convert moles to grams?

What is Molar Mass.

300

The mass of one mole of a substance as determined by its atomic mass from the periodic table. 

What is Molar Mass? 

300

The correct coefficients for the reaction: 

___C2H4 + ___O2 -->  ___CO2 + ____H2O

_1__C2H4 + _3__O2 -->  __2_CO2 + __2__H2O

300

2 KClO3 --> 2 KCl + 3 O2

How many moles of KClO3 must decompose in order to produce 9 moles of oxygen gas?

What is 6 moles KClO3

400

2 Na + Cl2 --> 2 NaCl 

If you were given 15 moles of Na and 7 moles of Cl2, which would be your excess reactant? 

Na would be the excess reactant.

400

What would be the correct conversion factor if I were given grams of Hand wanted to find moles of H2

(1 mol H2)/(2.02 g H2)

400

The reactant the is completely used up during the reaction and used to calculate the amount of product.

What is Limiting Reactant. 

400

The correct coefficients for the reaction: 

___P + ___O2 -->  ___P2O3

The correct coefficients for the reaction: 

__4_P + _3__O2 -->  __2_P2O3

400

2 Na + Cl2 --> 2 NaCl

How many grams of NaCl will be produced from 1.25 mol of chlorine gas reacting with sodium?

What is 146 g NaCl

500

2 H2 + O2  --> 2 H2O

If you were given 6 moles of O2 and 5.0 g of H2, which would be you limiting reactant? 

H2 would be your limiting reactant

500

_____Fe+_____ O2---> ____Fe2O3

Find the mole ratio of Iron to Oxygen

What is 4:3

500
Reactant that is not used up when a reaction is run to completion
What is Excess Reactant
500

The correct coefficients for the reaction: 

___ H3PO4 + ___ Ca(OH)2 --> ___ Ca3(PO4)2 + ____ H2O

2 H3PO4 + 3 Ca(OH)2 --> 1 Ca3(PO4)2 + 6 H2O

500

Fe3O4 + 4 CO--->3 Fe + 4 CO2 How many moles of CO are needed to react with 16.5 g of Fe3O4

What is .285 moles CO