Two limiting reactants?

[Mariah Guerrero 1J]

Can a reaction have two limiting reactants?

[Endri Dis 1J]

I feel like there should always be an excess of one reactant which in return will cause the other reactant to become limited, so no I don't think its possible. A real-life example would be eating a bowl of cereal where you might put more milk than cereal and in the end, the bowl would be left with milk(excess reactant) and no cereal(limiting reactant). Hope this helps.

[AlyssaRivera]

No, because if there were multiple limiting reactants, there would be no excess products.

[Michael Park]

Two reactants cannot limit each other. You can have both reactants be used up completely in equal ratios.

[MadelynNguyen1F]

No, but two reactants can be used up in equal amounts. Neither of them limits the other.

[Hannah Lee 1B]

No, they will either both be completely used up or only one will be in shortage

[Alondra Juarez section 1E]

No there could not be two limiting reactants as there has to be one which will run out and another in which we will have an excess of there can not be two limiting.

[SammiOrsini_1B]

So is the overall fact that there can't be two limiting reactants because only one reactant will be completely used and the other will be in excess? Multiple reactants cant be used up in a single reaction?

[105012653 1F]

No because it was either be completely used up or some left over and two reactants cannot limit one another

[Chem_Mod]

You can have tow limiting reactants, but only if when both run out at the same time, meaning they both hit 0 amount left as soon as these reactants are reacted away with available reactants.

[Ashley Kim]

However, the case where there are two limiting reactants is pretty rare - most chemistry problems will result in only one limiting reactant. (It also doesn't happen often in real life, because experiments usually put one reactant in excess.)