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KMHS_Chemistry
Chapter 8 Vocabulary: Stoichiometry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Actual Yield | The amount of product that forms when the reaction is carried out in the laboratory. |
| Excess Reagent | A reagent present in a quantity that is more that sufficent to react with the limiting reagent |
| limiting reagent | any reactant that is used up first in a chemical reaction. |
| percent yield | the ratio of the actual yield to the theoretical yield for a chemical reaction expressed as a percentage. |
| stoichiomentry | the portion of chemistry dealing with numerical relationships in chemical reactions |
| theoretical yield | the amount of product that could form during a reaction calculated from a balanced chemical equation |