Finally, after changing schools, getting the opportunity to teach all levels of Chem, and being frustrated with the traditional approaches, the ideas of a new stoichiometry were put on paper in a formal way, they were typed. The method proposed here is not really new. What is new is that this conceptual approach goes beyond intuitively obvious multipliers and determines the multiplier in every problem. In RM or SBR , Equations are viewed as standard recipes, something a student can relate to. Unlike ordinary recipes, each of the ingredients not in mole units has to be converted to moles.
Every problem has a mole to mole component, and some have extensions.
No mole ratios are involved. Limiting reactant problems can be solved like all of the other problems, the only difference would be to calculate multipliers for each of the reactants. The reactant with the smallest multiplier is limiting. By working through the student tutorial, you can see this approach in action. Press here to go on to the student tutorial.