Answer to Question #164330 in General Chemistry for Abner Allen

Question

use the limiting reagent to determine how many grams of cu(oh)2 should precipitate out in the reaction?

Answer 1

CuSO4 + 2NaOH = Cu(OH)2 + Na2SO4

The limiting reactant is the reactant that gets consumed first in a chemical reaction and therefore limits how much product can be formed.

There is a lack of information in the given problem above such as the grams of copper sulfate and sodium hydroxide that was used in the experiment.

We want to find out how much of a product chemical is formed from a certain amount of reactant chemical. And the only way we do that is by finding how many moles there are of the reactant.