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Capstone: From Balanced Equation to Percent Yield

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This capstone combines balancing an equation, classifying its reaction type, identifying the limiting reactant, and calculating percent yield into one complete stoichiometric analysis.

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Identifying the limiting reactant by comparing 15.0 g against 30.0 g directly, rather than converting each to moles and applying the balanced equation's 2-to-1 ratio, would wrongly flag aluminum as limiting instead of iron(III) oxide.