Stoichiometry
Stoichiometry is a powerful command line tool for preforming stoichiometry
chemicals and chemical equations. Its subcommands are listed below.
React
The React subcommand performs limiting factor calculations on a chemical
equation to calculate the exact amounts of reactants required and products
produced. It takes one argument, equation, which is a textual
representation of the balanced chemical reaction in the form
Na2(CO3) + CaCl2 -> Ca(CO3) + 2NaCl
Where Na2(CO3) and CaCl2 are reactants, and Ca(CO3) and NaCl are
products.
You must also provide at least one target argument. When targetting an
amount of either a reactant or product, you use the -r and -p options
respectively, adding either a ? (unknown amount) or a number representing
the targeted number of grams for each reactant/product. This example
react command calculates the required amounts of sodium carbonate and
calcium chloride to produce 2 grams of calcium carbonate:
$ stoic react "Na2(CO3) + CaCl2 -> Ca(CO3) + 2NaCl" -p 2 ?
Reaction: Na2(CO3) + CaCl2 -> Ca(CO3) + 2NaCl
Reactants:
Na2(CO3) required: 2.117920887633085g
CaCl2 required: 2.2176519487163096g
Products:
Ca(CO3) produced: 2.0g
NaCl produced: 2.335572836349394g
The -v flag enables verbose output, which prints the detailed molar mass
calculations for each compound and the limiting reaction calculation. Here
is the output of the previous example with the verbose flag enabled:
$ stoic react "Na2(CO3) + CaCl2 -> Ca(CO3) + 2NaCl" -p 2 ? -v
Reaction: Na2(CO3) + CaCl2 -> Ca(CO3) + 2NaCl
Molar mass calculations:
Molar mass of Na2(CO3) = 2x22.989769282 + (12.011 + 3x15.999) = 105.987538564 g/mol
Molar mass of CaCl2 = 40.0784 + 2x35.45 = 110.97840000000001 g/mol
Molar mass of Ca(CO3) = 40.0784 + (12.011 + 3x15.999) = 100.0864 g/mol
Molar mass of NaCl = 22.989769282 + 35.45 = 58.439769282 g/mol
Limiting factor calculation:
Number of reactions to produce 0.019982734917031685 mol of Ca(CO3): 0.019982734917031685
Limiting factor: Ca(CO3) (0.019982734917031685 reactions occurring)
0.019982734917031685 mol Na2(CO3) used
0.019982734917031685 mol CaCl2 used
0.019982734917031685 mol Ca(CO3) produced
0.03996546983406337 mol NaCl produced
Reactants:
Na2(CO3) required: 2.117920887633085g
CaCl2 required: 2.2176519487163096g
Products:
Ca(CO3) produced: 2.0g
NaCl produced: 2.335572836349394g
The -o option changes the output units, if you want to view the reactant/product
amounts in another format. Supported formats are grams, milligrams, and moles.
