In: Chemistry
You want to make a cheese sandwich with two slices of bread and one slice of cheese. For the following combinations state whether the limiting reagent is bread or cheese or neither.
A. 4 bread slices and 1 cheese slice.
B. 6 bread slices and 4 cheese slices.
C. 6 bread slices and 3 cheese slices.
D. 8 bread slices and 3 cheese slices.
E. 4 bread slices and 5 cheese slices.
F. 6 bread slices and 2 cheese slices.
G. 2 bread slices and 1 cheese slice.
H. 8 bread slices and 5 cheese slices.
The substance which limits the formation of the product is known as the limiting reagent.
The amount of limiting reagent decides the amount of product formation.