Molar concentration

<p>Molar concentration (also called molarity, amount concentration or substance concentration) is a measure of the <a href="/facts/Concentration/wqBmz5od">concentration</a> of a <a href="/facts/Chemical_species/A8BxM3oW">chemical species</a>, in particular, of a <a href="/facts/Solute/MGchhMQV">solute</a> in a <a href="/facts/Solution_(chemistry)/MGchhMQV">solution</a>, in terms of <a href="/facts/Amount_of_substance/tQVyNLCp">amount of substance</a> per unit <a href="/facts/Volume/aeAXCBUd">volume</a> of solution. In <a href="/facts/Chemistry/SrNqkGVm">chemistry</a>, the most commonly used unit for molarity is the number of <a href="/facts/Mole_(unit)/kCMFwCc0">moles</a> per <a href="/facts/Liter/QKwbQz8I">liter</a>, having the unit symbol mol/L or <a href="/facts/Mole_(unit)/kCMFwCc0">mol</a>/<a href="/facts/Decimetre/Ww43QljM">dm</a>3 (1000 mol/<a href="/facts/Cubic_metre/GPILKCtm">m3</a>) in SI units. A solution with a concentration of 1 mol/L is said to be 1 molar, commonly designated as 1 M or 1 M. Molarity is often depicted with square brackets around the substance of interest; for example, the molarity of the hydrogen ion is depicted as [H+].
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Molar concentration