Limiting Reagent Experiment

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Experiments involving chemical reactions can be performed using simple household ingredients and products such as baking soda and vinegar.
When baking soda (sodium hydrogen carbonate) reacts with ethanoic acid which is found in vinegar in a 1:1 ration, the reaction will produce three different products which are water, carbon dioxide and Sodium acetate.
The reaction is:
NaHCO3 + HC2H3O2 → NaC2H3O2 + H2O + CO2
In the experiment, the quantitative relationship between the two reagents which is the limiting reagent and which is the excess reagent will been found. (Rosedale Academy)

Hypothesis
For the phenomenon of the reaction, it is hypothesized that the balloon will expand and there will be bubbles in the bottle.
For the quantitative relationship

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