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RE: Chemistry Lesson: Part 5 (Chemical Reactions… continued)
if two different, but directly proportional, amounts of reactants would enter the reaction, would it lead to a similarly direct proportion of CO2 as output?
Theoretical reaction yields are always equivalent to the amount of the smallest number of reagent moles. So yes, the amount of CO/2/ output would be directly proportional (with regards to the reaction stoichiometry) to the amount of reactants (aka if I doubled the number of moles of both of my reactants in the example, I would double the number of moles of CO/2/ produced). In practice this is more complicated because reactions do not actually progress to completion (we're really looking at molecules smacking into one another, and as the populations of reactants decrease the probability of reacting similarly decreases) so you get a smaller amount then theoretically indicated.
I see. well, thanks for clearing that up!