Percentage yield
What Percentage yield means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
The actual yield divided by the theoretical yield and multiplied by 100, comparing the amount actually obtained with the maximum predicted.
Measures how much product is actually obtained, and is distinguished from atom economy.
Topics that use Percentage yield
- Amount of substance (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- amount of substance
- atom economy
- Atom economy and by-products
- Concentration in mol dm⁻³
- Converting between cm³ and dm³
- Converting between moles and number of particles
- Empirical formula
- Empirical formula mass and molecular formula multiplier
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