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Prior Knowledge Questions ​(Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo​.) Imagine you and your friends are making hot dogs. A complete hot dog consists of a wiener and a bun. At the store, you buy four pac... kages of eight wieners and three bags of 10 buns. 1. How many total hot dogs can you make? ______30_____________ 2. Which ingredient limited the number of hot dogs you could make? ___buns______________ 3. Which ingredient will you have leftovers of? ___hotdog________________________ Gizmo Warm-up Just as ingredients can be put together to make a new food, substances can combine during a ​chemical reaction​ to produce new substances. The substances that undergo change are called reactants​. The new substances are ​products​. Sometimes during a chemical reaction, one type of reactant will be used up before the other reactants. This reactant is the ​limiting reactant​. Using the ​Limiting Reactants​ Gizmo™, you can determine which reactant is limiting in various scenarios. To begin, make sure ​H​2​ + O​2​ becomes​ ​H​2​O​ is selected. The small “2” in H​2​, O​2​, and H​2​O is a subscript​. Subscripts represent the number of atoms in [Show More]

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