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MOLARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution
Synonyms:
M; molar concentration; molarity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("molarity" is a kind of...):
concentration (the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume)
Derivation:
molar (containing one mole of a substance)
molar (designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution)
Context examples:
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one billionth of a mole (10E-9 mole) of solute per minute per milliliter.
(Nanomole per Minute per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one millionth of a mole (10E-6 mole) per milligram of a substance per period of time equal to sixty seconds.
(Micromole per Milligram per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one hundredth of a mole (10E-2 mole) of solute in one liter of solution.
(Centimole per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one one-millionth of a mole (10E-6 mole) of solute per one liter of solution.
(Micromole per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one billionth of a mole (10E-9 mole) of solute in one liter of solution.
(Nanomole per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)
Unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one millionth of mole of a solute in one deciliter of the solution.
(Micromole per Deciliter, NCI Thesaurus)