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What are limiting reactants? How can you predict how much of a product you will create if you know how much of a reactant you used?

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If you are given a chemical equation and specific amounts for each reactant in grams, you have to follow these steps, in order, to determine how much product can possilby be made:

1. Convert each reactant into moles of the product.

2. Determine which reactant is the limiting reactant.

3. Convert the moles of product, from the limiting reactant, to grams.

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