Question

What do you mean by limiting reagent.?

Answer 1

Limiting reagent is a reactant in a chemical reaction which retards the rate at which the reaction takes place or limits the amount of product formed.

Answer 2

Explanation:

For a chemical reaction to proceed to completion , the reactants need to be in amounce as required by a balanced chemical equation. When it is not so one reactant is in access over the other.

The amount of the product formed then it depends upon the reactant which gets consumed.

This reactant which gets consumed , limits the amount of the product formed and is called the limiting reagent.