What are 2 reasons why stoichiometry is important?
Knowing stoichiometry can help you find out the composition of molecules and general proportions of how to combine things to get them to react completely. Having the right proportions of things gets pretty important when you don’t have a whole lot of reactants to waste (cost reduction), or when you’re in the field of pharmacy (preventing overdose and death!). Additionally, the skills you get from learning how to do stoichiometry problems are probably THE most important thing to take away from a chemistry class. Dimensional analysis (aka. unit cancellation) will help you in every single science class you ever take – especially physics – and can often help you get a correct answer on a problem you don’t completely understand as long as you know your answers has the correct units.
