Limiting Reactant

• if you have 5 poached eggs and 100 pancakes, you can only sell 5 full breakfasts 
• In the chemical reactions, usually one chemical gets used up before the other
• the chemical used up first os called the "limiting reactant"
• Once it is used up the reaction stops.
• L.R determine the quantity of the products formed 
• To find the limiting reactant assume one reactant is used up, determine how much of this reactant is required.