Amount of a
constituent divided by the volume of the mixture. Also called
amount-of-substance concentration,
substance concentration (in clinical chemistry) and in older literature
molarity. For entities B it is often denoted by
.
The common unit is
mole per cubic decimetre
(
) or
mole per
litre (
) sometimes denoted by
.
Source:
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
doi:10.1351/goldbook.
(
for gaseous mixtures)
