An installment from the Socratica chemistry video series explains limiting reactants. It includes multiple example problems to demonstrate how scientists control for these limiting reagents.

Concepts

limiting reactants, chemical equations, balancing chemical equations

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Create additional practice problems for scholars to solve independently
• Review solving for molar mass

Classroom Considerations

• Relies heavily on prior knowledge of balancing chemical equations

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Offers closed captioning to help with note taking
• Works well in a traditional or flipped classroom

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4