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The document contains a series of chemistry problems involving limiting and excess reagents in various reactions. It includes tasks such as writing balanced equations, calculating the amounts of reactants needed, determining limiting and excess reactants, and calculating percent yields. Each problem provides specific quantities of reactants and products to analyze.

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05 - Limiting Regant WS

The document contains a series of chemistry problems involving limiting and excess reagents in various reactions. It includes tasks such as writing balanced equations, calculating the amounts of reactants needed, determining limiting and excess reactants, and calculating percent yields. Each problem provides specific quantities of reactants and products to analyze.

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Limiting & Excess Reagent WS

1.​ 50 grams of Benzene (C6H6) is placed in a container with 160g of oxygen gas. After the combustion reaction, 30 grams of
water were collected.
a.​ Write the balanced chemical equation.

b.​ How much oxygen do you need completely burn 50 grams of benzene?

c.​ Do you have enough oxygen?

d.​ Based on parts c and d, what are your limiting and excess reactants?

e.​ How many grams of the excess is left over?

2.​ 2.80 g of Al(s) reacts with a 4.15 g sample of Cl2 (g) in a synthesis reaction
a.​ Write and balance the chemical equation:

b.​ What are the limiting and excess reactants?

c.​ How much of the excess is leftover?


3.​ When copper (II) chloride reacts with sodium nitrate, copper (II) nitrate and sodium chloride are formed.
a.​ Write the balanced equation for the reaction given above:​

b.​ If 15 grams of copper (II) chloride react with 20 grams of sodium nitrate, how much sodium chloride can be
formed?

c.​ How many grams of copper(II) nitrate is formed?

d.​ How much of the excess reagent is left over in this reaction?

e.​ If 11.3 grams of sodium chloride are formed in the reaction described in part b, what is the percent yield of this
reaction?
4.​ When lead (II) nitrate reacts with sodium iodide, sodium nitrate and lead (II) iodide are formed.

a.​ Write the balanced equation:

b.​ If I start with 25.0 grams of lead (II) nitrate and 15.0 grams of sodium iodide, how many grams of sodium nitrate
can be formed?

c.​ How much excess is left over?

d.​ If 6 grams of sodium nitrate are formed in the reaction described in problem, what is the percent yield of this
reaction?

5.​ 1000 grams of sodium chloride is combined with 2000 grams of barium phosphate.

a.​ Write the balanced equation.

b.​ What is the limiting reactant?

c.​ How many grams of excess reactant are left?


6.​ A chemist burns 160.0 g of Al in excess air to produce aluminum oxide, Al2O3. She produces 260.0 g of solid aluminum
oxide.
a.​ Write a balanced equation for the reaction.

b.​ Determine the theoretical yield.

c.​ Determine the percent yield.

7.​ 4000 grams of heptane is combusted with 7000 grams of oxygen. How many grams of excess reactant are left?

8.​ In the reaction of Zn with HCl, 140.15 g of ZnCl2 was actually formed, although the theoretical yield was 143 g. What was
the percent yield?

9.​ 12.5 g of copper reacts with an excess of chlorine gas, and 25.4 g of copper(II) chloride are obtained. Calculate the
theoretical yield and the percent yield.

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10.​ In the reaction of Zn with HCl, 140.15 g of ZnCl2 was actually formed, although the theoretical yield was 143 g. What was
the percent yield?

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