Question

10 moles of hydrogen are allowded to react with 6 moles of oxygen .How much water molecules are obtained?

Answer 1

Since 2H₂ + O₂ ---> 2H₂O

We need 2 moles of hydrogen for each mole of oxygen

So, we need 2(6) = 12 moles of H₂ but since we only have 10 moles,

H₂ is the limiting reagent

So since 2 moles of H₂ gives 2 moles of water,

10 moles of H₂ will give rise to 10 moles of Water with 1 mole of remaining oxygen