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Suppose we cook our pancakes. We accidentally burn 3 of them and 1 falls on the floor.
- Suppose we cook our pancakes. We accidentally burn 3 of them and 1 falls on the floor.
- So even though we had enough flour for
15 pancakes, we finished with only 11 pancakes.
- If this were a chemical reaction, the 11 pancakes would be our actual yield, the amount of product actually produced by a chemical reaction.
Limiting Reactant, Theoretical Yield, and Percent Yield