English Resume: Calculate about Stoichiometry

Definition

Stoichiometry is the quantitative study of products and reactants in chemical reactions. Stoichiometric calculations are best done by expressing both the known and unknown quantities in terms of moles and then converting to other units if necessary. A limiting reagent is the reactant that is present in the smallest stoichiometric amount. It limits the amount of product that can be formed. The amount of product obtained in a reaction (the actual yield) may be less than the maximum possible amount (the theoretical yield). The ratio of the two multiplied by 100 percent is expressed as the percent yield.

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. Conversely, if one reactant has a known quantity and the quantity of product can be empirically determined, then the amount of the other reactants can also be calculated.

This is illustrated in the image here, where the balanced equation is:

CH₄ + 2 O₂ → CO₂ + 2 H₂O.

Here, one molecule of methane reacts with two molecules of oxygen gas to yield one molecule of carbon dioxide and two molecules of water. Stoichiometry measures these quantitative relationships, and is used to determine the amount of products/reactants that are produced/needed in a given reaction. Describing the quantitative relationships among substances as they participate in chemical reactions is known as reaction stoichiometry. In the example above, reaction stoichiometry measures the relationship between the methane and oxygen as they react to form carbon dioxide and water.

Because of the well known relationship of moles to atomic weights, the ratios that are arrived at by stoichiometry can be used to determine quantities by weight in a reaction described by a balanced equation. This is called composition stoichiometry.

Gas stoichiometry deals with reactions involving gases, where the gases are at a known temperature, pressure, and volume and can be assumed to be ideal gases. For gases, the volume ratio is ideally the same by the ideal gas law, but the mass ratio of a single reaction has to be calculated from the molecular masses of the reactants and products. In practice, due to the existence of isotopes, molar masses are used instead when calculating the mass ratio.

Molar and Molar Mass Concepts

In IU (International Unit) systems, one mole is defined as the sum of the material composed of entities (atoms, molecules, or other particles) a sum of the atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12. The value of the number of atoms is 6,02 × 10²³ called the Number of Avogadro, N_A.

m = n

N = n x N_A

Empirical Formulas and Molecular Formulas

The empirical formula is the simplest integer ratio of the number of moles of each element in a compound. The molecular formula represents the true number of moles of each element in 1 mole of the compound. The molecular formula may be identical to the empirical formula or an integer multiple of the empirical formula. For example, phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) has a molecular formula and an identical empirical formula. Glucose has a molecular formula C₆H₁₂O₆ which is a folding of 6 times its empirical formula, CH₂O.

Molecular formula ≡ (Empirical formula)_n

Basic Stoichiometric Solution

The term "concentration" of the solution expresses the amount of solute dissolved in a certain amount of solvent or a certain amount of solution. The concentration of the solution can be expressed in molarity. Molarity (M) is defined as the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.

Stoichiometry Reaction

In chemical reactions, the amount of reacting reactants is sometimes incompatible with the stoichiometric amount of the reaction (not in accordance with the coefficient ratio of the equivalent equation). Therefore, there will be reactants that have reacted first compared to other reactants. The reactants that remain after reacting are called excess reagents. The out-of-date reactant is called a limiting reagent. After the barrier reagents are exhausted, no more reaction products are formed. Thus, the number of limiting reagents determines the amount of product produced.

References
Chang, Raymond. 2010. Chemistry 10th Edition. New York; McGraw Hill
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