Limiting Reagent Lab Report

Discussion: For this experiment to occur, the limiting and the excess reagents needed to be determined. The limiting reagent was picked based upon the single displacement that was going to occur when the two substances, iron and copper(II)sulfate, were mixed together in water. Seeing that iron was going to displace copper and take its place, it was chosen to be the limiting reagent with the condition that if it was in excess then after the displacement was completed, there will be iron precipitate left in the solution thus, we will not be able to identify and filter the copper metal. To weigh the amount of copper produced after it was filtered it first needed to dry out, if it was not dried out then it will not be 100% copper and will have