what is limiting reagents
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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.
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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 \bold {reactant}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 \bold {consumed}consumed , limits the amount of the product formed and is called the limiting reagent.
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