Learning Goals
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- Recognize that atoms are conserved during a chemical reaction.
- Use concrete everyday experiences (such as making sandwiches) to describe the what a limiting reactant means in chemical reactions.
- Identify the limiting reactant in a chemical reaction.
- Predict the products and leftovers after reaction, based on the quantities of reactants and ratios of molecules in the balanced chemical equation.
- Predict the initial amounts of reactants given the amount of products and leftovers using the concept of limiting reactant.
- Translate from symbolic (chemical formula) to molecular (pictorial) representations of matter.