Question

What is stoichiometry??​

Answer 1

Answer:

• Stoichiometry is the calculation of reactants and products in chemical reactions in chemistry.
• Stoichiometry is founded on the law of conservation of mass where the total mass of the reactants equals the total mass of the products, leading to the insight that the relations among quantities of reactants and products typically form a ratio of positive integers.
• This means that if the amounts of the separate reactants are known, then the amount of the product can be calculated.
• The term stoichiometry was first used by Jeremias Benjamin Richter in 1792 when the first volume of Richter's Stoichiometry or the Art of Measuring the Chemical Elements was published.
• Almost all stoichiometric problems can be solved in just four simple steps:

1. Balance the equation.
2. Convert units of a given substance to moles.
3. Using the mole ratio, calculate the moles of substance yielded by the reaction.
4. Convert moles of wanted substance to desired units.

Answer 2

Stoichimetry deals with the calculations of masses of reactants and products involved in a chemical reactions.