Answer to Question #181305 in General Chemistry for Joshua

Question

1) What are the step by step procedures used in stoichiometric calculations for reactions in solution?

2) Why us it important to understand solution stoichiometry and its application in real life situation?

Answer 1

Almost all stoichiometric problems can be solved in just four simple steps:

• Balance the equation.
• Convert units of a given substance to moles.
• Using the mole ratio, calculate the moles of substance yielded by the reaction.
• Convert moles of wanted substance to desired units.

The principles of stoichiometry can be used while cooking.

If you were almost out of a specific ingredient, you could use the principles of stoichiometry to figure out how much of every other ingredient you would need (treating the ingredient you were almost out of as the "limiting reagent").

Stoichiometry continues to be useful in many walks of life—a farmer determining how much fertilizer to use, figuring out how fast you have to go to get somewhere in a specific period of time, or just to make conversions between systems like Celsius and Fahrenheit.