Monday, December 12, 2011

can you just concentrate on this?!

Concentration is defined as the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. In chemistry there are four different types of concentration: mass concentration, molar concentration, number concentration, and volume concentration.
here are examples of the four types:

mass concentration:

The mass concentration ρi is defined as the mass of a constituent mi divided by the volume of the mixture V:

\rho_i = \frac {m_i}{V}

The SI-unit is kg/m3.


molar concentration:

The molar concentration ci is defined as the amount of a constituent ni divided by the volume of the mixture V:

c_i = \frac {n_i}{V}

The SI-unit is mol/m3. However, more commonly the unit mol/L is used.


number concentration:

The number concentration Ci is defined as the number of entities of a constituent Ni in a mixture divided by the volume of the mixture V:

C_i = \frac{N_i}{V}

The SI-unit is 1/m3.


volume concentration:

The volume concentration ϕi (also called volume fraction) is defined as the volume of a constituent Vi divided by the volume of all consituents of the mixture V prior to mixing:

\phi_i = \frac {V_i}{V}

The SI-unit is m3/m3.


These are all related to chemistry.

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