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Percent Yield: You Will Learn How To Distinguish and Calculate: - Theoretical Yield - Actual Yield - Percent Yield

This document defines and provides examples for calculating: 1) Theoretical yield, actual yield, and percent yield for a chemical reaction. 2) How to identify the limiting reagent that determines the maximum product yield. 3) An example reaction of magnesium and nitrogen to form magnesium nitride, calculating theoretical yield and percent yield based on the actual experimental yield collected.

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Percent Yield: You Will Learn How To Distinguish and Calculate: - Theoretical Yield - Actual Yield - Percent Yield

This document defines and provides examples for calculating: 1) Theoretical yield, actual yield, and percent yield for a chemical reaction. 2) How to identify the limiting reagent that determines the maximum product yield. 3) An example reaction of magnesium and nitrogen to form magnesium nitride, calculating theoretical yield and percent yield based on the actual experimental yield collected.

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You will learn how to distinguish and calculate:

PERCENT YIELD
• Theoretical yield
• Actual yield
• Percent yield
Percent Yield
Theoretical
 
Percent Yield= X 100 Yield

Actual Yield Percent Yield= X 100 = 67 %


 
KClO3 --) KCl + O2
In the lab, 10 g of KClO3 were carefully decomposed, and 3.41
g of O2 gas were collected. What are the theoretical, actual,
and percent yield of the reaction?
What is the percent yield of the following reaction if 60 grams
of CaCO3 is heated to give 15 grams of CaO?
CaCO3→CaO + CO2
CaCO3→ CaO + CO2
The limiting reagent (aka limiting
Limiting Reagent
reactant) of a reaction is the reactant
that limits the amount of product that
is formed.
You took 27 graham crackers, 40 marshmallows, and 12
bars of chocolate. How many s’mores could you make?
Suppose that we combined 75 grams of magnesium with 45 grams of nitrogen and
heated them up. Determine the limiting reagent, and calculate the theoretical yield.

Mg + N2 → Mg3N2

Suppose that we have actually performed this reaction in the lab and collected 88.7 g of
magnesium nitride. Calculate the percent yield of the reaction.

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