

The scenario in which most lab scientists will encounter this type of calculation is when making up solutions following a standard operating procedure (SOP) or a scientific paper. Molarity ( M or mol/L) = Number of Moles (mol) / Volume (L)Įxample of molarity and concentration calculations Number of moles (mol) = Mass (g) / Molar Mass (g/mol)Ĭoncentration (g/L) = Mass (g) / Volume (L) To calculate molarity or to calculate related values (including volume, mass, molar mass and concentration) from molarity, the following equations are utilized.

Provided some additional information is known, one value can be deduced from the other using the equations below. Whereas two solutions at the same concentration will have the same mass of the chemical per liter of solution but are therefore likely to have differing numbers of molecules of that chemical per liter. Two solutions that have the same molarity will have the same number of molecules of the chemical per liter but are likely to contain differing masses of that chemical per liter to achieve this. How does molarity relate to concentration? For sodium chloride (NaCl) they are in a ratio of 1:1 so the molar mass of NaCl is 22.99 + 35.45 = 58.44 g/mol.įor a compound like water (H 2O), 1 mole of hydrogen (H) is 1.008 g/mol and 1 mole of oxygen (O) is 15.9994 g/mol. One mole of sodium (Na) is 22.99 g, and 1 mole of chlorine is 35.45 g. The molar mass is the mass in grams of 1 mole of a particular molecule. So, 1 mole of hydrogen gas (H 2) contains 6.02x10 23 molecules, and 1 mole of glucose (C 6H 12O 6.) also contains 6.02x10 23 molecules, but as H 2 is a much simpler molecule, 1 mole of H 2 will have a much smaller mass (the molar mass) than 1 mole of C 6H 12O 6. This equates to roughly 6.02x10 23, also referred to as Avogadro's Number. A 1 M solution is said to be “one molar”.Ī mole is the quantity of anything that has the same number of particles as 12 g of carbon-12. The values of (mass and molar) concentration different in space triggers the phenomenon of diffusion.Molarity is the concentration of a solution in terms of the number of moles of the solute in 1 dm 3 (1 liter) of the solution. Ρ i = ρ i ( T 0 ) 1 + α Δ T Spatial variation and gradient

On small intervals of temperature the dependence is : Mass concentration depends on the variation of the volume of the solution due mainly to thermal expansion. The notation common with mass density underlines the connection between the two quantities (the mass concentration being the mass density of a component in the solution), but it can be a source of confusion especially when they appear in the same formula undifferentiated by an additional symbol (like a star superscript, a bolded symbol or varrho). Sometimes the mass concentration is called titre. One litre of a solution usually contains either slightly more or slightly less than 1 litre of solvent because the process of dissolution causes volume of liquid to increase or decrease. The volume V in the definition refers to the volume of the solution, not the volume of the solvent. 3.2 Specific volume (or mass-specific volume).1.3 Sum of mass concentrations - normalizing relation.
