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For the reaction 2Al + 3CuCl₂ -> 3Cu + 2AlCl3, 20g of Al reacted with 90g of CuCl₂. The limiting reactant is (blank)because it produced the (blank) amount of copper

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1. The first thing we do is chech if the reaction is balanced:

[tex]2Al\text{ + 3}CuCl_2\rightarrow3Cu+2AlCl_3[/tex]

As we can see the equation is balanced because there are on both sides:

2 atoms of Al

3 atoms of Cu

6 atoms of Cl

2. Now we calculate the moles of each reactant that we have:

For this we need to know the molar mass of each reactant. We calculate it using the periodic table.

[tex]\begin{gathered} M_{Al}=26.982\text{ }\frac{g}{mol} \\ M_{CuCl_2}=63.546\text{ }\frac{g}{mol}\text{ + }2\text{ }x\text{ }35.45\frac{g}{mol}=134.446\frac{g}{mol} \end{gathered}[/tex]

So we calculate:

[tex]\begin{gathered} n_{Al}=\frac{20g}{26.982\frac{g}{mol}}=0.74\text{ mol} \\ n_{CuCl_2}=\frac{90g}{134.446\frac{g}{mol}}=0.66mol \end{gathered}[/tex]

3. Now we calculate the limiting reactant:

If we consider that all the aluminum reacts, for 0.74 moles we would need:

[tex]n_{CuCl_2}=0.669\text{ }mol\text{ }x\frac{3\text{ }molCuCl_2}{2Al\text{ }}=1.11molCuCl_2[/tex]

So we see that we need 1.11 moles of CuCl2 in order for the aluminum to react completely. So the limiting reactant is CuCl2.

Now we calculate the amount of copper produced:

So the amount of copper produced is 0.669 moles.