Chemistry GCSE
Mole ratio
What Mole ratio means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The ratio required by the balanced equation, used to convert the amount of limiting reactant into the amount of product in moles.
Found from the balanced equation and used to find moles of the unknown solution from the moles of the known solution.
The ratio from the balanced equation used to calculate the amount of product from the limiting reactant.
Topics that use Mole ratio
- Atom economy (AQA GCSE)
- Limiting reactants (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Addition reactions
- Atom economy
- Balanced equations
- Concentration
- Concentration and volume
- Economic factors in industrial chemistry
- Evaluating competing reaction pathways
- excess
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