Limiting Reactant vs. Reagent??? [ENDORSED]

[Shundeen Martinez 1D]

What's the difference between a reactant and a reagent? Are they just used interchangeably?

[Brandon_Tran_2E]

Interchangeably. :)

[Alex Alonso - 4F]

They're the same thing :)

[juliasloan_4g]

In lecture, Dr. Lavelle said that reactant is used in the hypothetical sense when doing calculations but reagent is when you are referring to a lab setting and actually doing the experiment. For the purposes of the class, because there is no lab component they can be interpreted as the same thing.

[tierra parker 1J]

They are the same thing. Reagent would be what you physically have in the lab and reactant is what you would read and write on paper.

[Kassidy Tran 1E]

In the textbook it states that reagents are the chemicals available in a laboratory. When a reagent is being used in a particular reaction it is called a reactant.

[BenJohnson1H]

Typically, the reagent is the tangible and physical form of the reactant as seen in a lab, not just a hypothetical reactant on paper.