The label speaks in units
Every bottle in a chemistry lab introduces itself the same way: a number, and the unit it wears. mol/L is a molar concentration — moles of dissolved stuff per litre of solution, written and read aloud: C equals n over V. Chemists nickname it molarity, and a 2 mol/L bottle gets called “two molar” — written 2 M for short.
The slash is the tell. mol/L divides a mole count by a volume — that is molarity. A % divides a mass by a mass — that is mass percent, every unit cancelled. And a number in bare grams or bare moles is not a concentration at all — it is an amount, still waiting for its water. Read the unit before the number, and the label can never fool you.
- = Molar concentration (molar concentration)
- = Amount of solute (amount of substance)
- = Volume of solution (volume)
- = Mass percent (concentration)
- = Mass of solute (mass)
- = Mass of solution (mass)
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