Magnesium metal reacts with hydrochloric acid. At the end of the reaction there is a small amount of magnesium left at the bottom of the flask. Which of the reactants was the limiting reactant?
Question
Magnesium metal reacts with hydrochloric acid. At the end of the reaction there is a small amount of magnesium left at the bottom of the flask. Which of the reactants was the limiting reactant?
Solution
The limiting reactant in this reaction was hydrochloric acid. This is because at the end of the reaction, there was still some magnesium left. This means that all of the hydrochloric acid was used up (reacted with the magnesium) before all of the magnesium was. Therefore, the amount of hydrochloric acid was the limiting factor in how much product could be formed, making it the limiting reactant.
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