Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry is the relationship between the relative quantities of substances taking part in a chemical reaction, typically a ratio of whole integers.

Stoichiometry is the study of the reactants and products of balanced chemical equations. Let’s look at a historical example.

Initially chemists knew that water was made of up two things–these two things could be seen when water was subjected to Electrolysis. Two different “things” appeared (called elements) and chemists found that these things could be combined to make water.

Chemists found that the maximum quantity of water could be produced if two volumes of one was combined with one volume of the other.

We argue that for now, this conveighs the basic concept of Stoichiometry–the study to gain knowledge for the coefficients of a chemical reaction so that we might combine the correct amount of reactants to make the desired product.

A chemical equation includes the stoichiometric constants and it also mentions the state of the product or reaction: (g) for gas and (l) for liquid.