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Moles
The heart of stoichiometry is the mole ratio given by the coefficients of the balanced equation
You use mole ratios for two reasons. One: To balance the number of moles to get the correct answer. Two: To finalize the cancellations of the measurements to get the answer.
You don't solve stoichiometry. The questions and answers that arise in stoichiometry are merely manipulations of permanent relationships between things (e.g. there are approximately 70.9 grams in one mole of chlorine gas). The conversions needed to report an answer of a stoichiometric problem are the part that take work to overcome mentally. One has to evaluate the units that a value starts with and the units the final answer requires and think about what conversions are needed in between.
If one knows the mole ratio of a reactant and product in a chemical reaction one can
Moles
The heart of stoichiometry is the mole ratio given by the coefficients of the balanced equation
You use mole ratios for two reasons. One: To balance the number of moles to get the correct answer. Two: To finalize the cancellations of the measurements to get the answer.
You don't solve stoichiometry. The questions and answers that arise in stoichiometry are merely manipulations of permanent relationships between things (e.g. there are approximately 70.9 grams in one mole of chlorine gas). The conversions needed to report an answer of a stoichiometric problem are the part that take work to overcome mentally. One has to evaluate the units that a value starts with and the units the final answer requires and think about what conversions are needed in between.
If one knows the mole ratio of a reactant and product in a chemical reaction one can
Stoichiometry problems
Depends, proportional factor could be a method.
to find how much moles are obtained between two compounds
Well, first you start with a problem . . .
The solving of mole to mole problems through stoichiometry is based in ratios. Assuming the reaction formulas are simplified and balanced the moles consumed and produced can be calculated. For example in the simple combustion reaction of ethane and oxygen of:CH4 + 2O2 = CO2 +2H20 we see a molar ratio of 1:2 between methane combusted and waters produced.
You can't really say that stoichiometry was "discovered" because stoichiometry is a mathematical process. It requires you to convert various quantities using a technique called dimensional analysis. The quantities involved, such as the mole, were discovered independent of each other, sometimes hundreds of years apart. If pressed for a date, I'd go with the discovery of the mole, which was first proposed in 1811 but not calculated until 1865.
Keith F. Purcell has written: 'Stoichiometry' -- subject(s): Problems, exercises, Stoichiometry