Question

what do you understand by limiting reagent ?Give any one use
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Answer 1

Answer:

Limiting reagent is that reactant which gets totally consumed in a reaction ( A daily life ex: If you a 2 bottles each has volume 1 litre and you have 4 litre water, then only 2 bottles can be filled woith water, here Bottles are the limiting reagent, which get consumed and thus the reaction wont continue)

Its uses are: In numericals we do questions according to limiting reagent

Answer 2

The limiting reagent is the reactant that is used up completely. This stops the reaction and no further products are made. ... One way to determine the limiting reagent is to compare the mole ratios of the amounts of reactants used. This method is most useful when there are only two reactants.
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