Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Percent Yield

What is percent yield of a reaction? What is is used for?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is the ratio of the actual yield to the theoretical yield expressed as a percent. This is used to measure efficiency. To get this you take the actual yield divided by the theoretical yield X 100.

Kayla said...

Percent yeild is the ratio of the actual yield to the theoretical yeild expressed as a percent. Percent yield equals actual yield over theortical yeild. They use to to know how efficient a reaction is.

rach said...

percent yield is the ration of the actual yield to the theoretical yield expressed as a percent. this is used to measure efficiency. also to know how efficient a reaction is.

Anonymous said...

Percent Yield of product is the ratio of the actual yeirld to the theorectical yield expressed as a percent. Chemists will know how efficient a reaction is in producing the desired product. This is a way of measuring efficiency by means of percent yields.

..::..Fair..::.. said...

The percent yield is the ratio of the actual yield to the theoretical yield. It is expressed as a percent. It is used to measure efficiency.

matt said...

It is the Percent of actual yield next to theoretical yield. It helps to measure how efficient a thing is. You do this by taking actual yiled/theoretical yield and the take it times 100 to get a percent.