Im doing quesitions about Concentration, i understand them but dont understand what is the concentration what is the moles but i know the volume is the one with cm3
What is the concentration units it moles per dm3 or is it mol/dm3
Im doing quesitions about Concentration, i understand them but dont understand what is the concentration what is the moles but i know the volume is the one with cm3
What is the concentration units it moles per dm3 or is it mol/dm3
what is the units for moles
thanks for any replies
The unit for concentration is moles per dm3 which is the same as mol/dm3 Basically it shows how many moles of a substance there are for every dm3 of a solution.
Equation for concentration is... Concentration = moles / volume
Therefore the unit for concentration is mol / dm^3.
If the volume you use is in cm^3, then the concentration calculated will be in mol / cm^3.
But it helps to convert all values to the SI units before calculating, so divide any cm^3 by 1000 to get that value in dm^3 - then go from there.
Regardless of whether you are using dm^3 or cm^3, you are still in SI units the "d" and "c" parts are simply orders of magnitude. Whether you should divide by 1000 first depends totally on what the question asks. Edexcel exams in general use mols/dm^3, but I've seen some weird and wonderful things.
Regardless of whether you are using dm^3 or cm^3, you are still in SI units the "d" and "c" parts are simply orders of magnitude. Whether you should divide by 1000 first depends totally on what the question asks. Edexcel exams in general use mols/dm^3, but I've seen some weird and wonderful things.
Ah yeah, sorry I got my words in a mix - that point about SI units is very true.
But I'm sure the OP gets the point; make sure the answer is in appropriate units which match the units of the values going into the equation. Year 7 work basically.