Actv.

Stoic
Activity on Stoichiometry
(8 points)
Name Trent Carrion

This lab uses three simulations from PhET Interactive Simulations at University of Colorado Boulder, under the CC-
BY 4.0 license. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/reactants-products-and-leftovers/latest/reactants-products-and-leftovers_en.html
Instructions:
 Download and complete this document. Submit completed activity by uploading one single
document into Actv. Stoic in the Canvas Week.

Learning Goals:
Students will be able to:
● Relate the real-world example of making sandwiches to chemical reactions.

● Describe what “limiting reactant” means using examples of sandwiches and chemicals.

● Determine yield of a chemical reaction.

● Identify the limiting reactant in a chemical reaction.

● Deduct and calculate amount of excess reactant left after reaction complete.

Develop your understanding:

1. Open the Sandwiches screen. Notice that there are three sandwich recipes: cheese, meat and cheese; and custom.
Use the simulation to explore how many sandwiches you can make with different amounts of ingredients.

Test your learning:

2. Predict (without using the sim) how many cheese

sandwiches, as defined by the picture to the right,
you can make if you have 6 pieces of bread and 4
slices of cheese.
Complete the table based on your predictions:
Number of sandwiches made 3
Pieces of bread left over 0
Slices of cheese left over 1

Use the simulation to check your answers. Were your predictions correct? Yes or no: yes

3. Predict what would change about your number of

sandwiches if you had the same 6 pieces of bread
and 4 slices of cheese, but the sandwich is made
like the picture on the right?
Complete the table based on your predictions:
Number of sandwiches made 2
Pieces of bread left over 2
Slices of cheese left over 0
Use the “Custom” option in the simulation to check your answers.
Were your predictions correct? Yes or no: yes

4. Research what “limiting reactant” means and then write a description in your own words using the situations in #2 and
#3 above as supporting evidence. A limiting reactant is the reactant that limits the amount of product. For example,
using the previous situations we can say that in situation 2 has bread as a limiting reactant since there is left over
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 cheese. While in 3 we have cheese as the limiting reactant since we have left over of the other reactant, in this case
being bread.

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5. A tricycle factory gets a shipment with 400 seats and 600 wheels. Use your ideas about Limiting Reactants to explain
how you would figure out how many tricycles can be made.

Test your understanding:

Question Answer Question Answer
A A

D B

B C

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Relate the model to Chemistry: Open the Molecules screen, then explore a few common reactions and see how
changing the amounts of the reactants changes the amounts of products.

6. Select “Make Water” to see the balanced reaction for making water. Consider the three diagrams below.

A B C

a) Without using the simulation, predict which reactant amounts, A, B, or C, would produce the most water with the least
amount of leftovers. A

b) Use the simulation to check your answer. Was your prediction correct? Yes or no: A

Demonstrate comprehensive self-evaluation with good game scores: Open the game screen.

7. Play Level 1 and Level 2 in the “Show All” option. Paste your score after completing both levels in the space
below the example.
Example: Your
Note: The Snipping Tool does this very
easily. If you have never used it, type the score:
name in the search on the bottom of your
screen – it’s a free program that is
available on most computers.

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Apply comprehension to a typical problem:
8. Hydrogen sulfide gas burns in oxygen to produce sulfur dioxide and water vapor:
2H2S(g)+3O2(g) → 2SO2(g)+2H2O(g)
What mass of oxygen gas is consumed in a reaction that produces 4.60 mol SO2? 221 g O2
Answer: 221 g. Did you get the answer correct? y

If not, scroll down within the following link to Example 12.3.2 to see how to solve it.

9. Consider the following balanced equation:

N2 + 3 H2 → 2 NH3

a) What amount, in moles, of NH3 can be produced when we mix 3.2 moles of N2 are 3.6 moles NH3
mixed with 5.4 moles of H2?

b) Which reactant is in excess? N2

c) How many moles of the excess reactant are left over? 1.4 moles N2

Answers: (a) 3.6 moles NH3; (b) N2; (c) 1.4 moles N2. Did you get the answers correct? _____

If not, the following video shows you one way to solve it: Intro to Limiting Reactant and Excess Reactant.

Optional: If you want additional practice related to the problem above, consider the following balanced equation:
3 Cl2 + 2 Al → 2 AlCl3

a) How many grams of AlCl3 are produced when 186 g of Cl2 are mixed with 114 g of Al?
b) Which reactant is in excess?
c) How many grams of the excess reactant are left over?

Verify that you have the correct answers (answer for a at 11.02 min.; answer b at 11.55 min; answer c at 13.11
min.).

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