Molar concentration

Molar concentration, or molarity, or simply concentration, is a term in physical chemistry. It measures the concentration of a solution or mixture.

In chemistry, the molar concentration, $c_{i}$ is defined as the amount of a constituent $n_{i}$ (usually measured in moles – hence the name) divided by the volume of the mixture $V$ :^[1]

c_{i}={\frac {n_{i}}{V}}

The volume $V$ in the definition $c_{i}=n_{i}/V$ refers to the volume of the solution, not the volume of the solvent. One litre of a solution usually contains either slightly more or slightly less than 1 litre of solvent because when a substance dissolves in a solvent it causes volume of liquid to increase or decrease.

The reciprocal quantity represents the dilution (volume) which can appear in Ostwald's law of dilution.

References

↑ International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Amount concentration, c. Compendium of chemical terminology, internet edition. [1]

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