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how to calculat percentage yield ​

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Co-authored by Meredith Juncker, PhD

Last Updated: May 24, 2019 References Approved

In chemistry, the theoretical yield is the maximum amount of product a chemical reaction could create based on chemical equations. In reality, most reactions are not perfectly efficient. If you perform the experiment, you'll end up with a smaller amount, the actual yield. To express the efficiency of a reaction, you can calculate the percent yield using this formula: %yield = (actual yield/theoretical yield) x 100. A percent yield of 90% means the reaction was 90% efficient, and 10% of the materials were wasted (they failed to react, or their products were not captured).