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concentration
In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Several types of mathematical description can be distinguished: mass concentration, molar concentration, number concentration, and volume concentration. The concentration can refer to any kind of chemical mixture, but most frequently refers to solutes and solvents in solutions. The molar (amount) concentration has variants, such as normal concentration and osmotic concentration. Dilution is reduction of concentration, e.g., by adding solvent to a solution. The verb "to concentrate" means to
molarity
measure of the concentration of a solute in a solution, or of any chemical species, in terms of amount of substance in a given volume; most commonly expressed in units of moles of solute per litre of solution
normality
molar concentration divided by an equivalence factor
volumetric number density
count per volume
osmolarity
molarity of osmotically active particles
mass concentration
mass density of a component in a chemical mixture