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What is a concentration?
A ratio of solutes to solution.
- amount of solute
- Concentration = —————————
- amount of solution
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What is percent solution?
Percent solution is the amount of solute in 100ml of solution.
5g or 5ml of a solute in 100ml of solution would be a 5% solution.
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What is weight per volume percentage or w/v solution?
The amount of -solid- solute in 100ml of solution. Every 100ml of 5% solution will have 5ml of solute in it.
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What is volume percentage or v/v solution percentage?
The amount liquid solute in a 100ml solution. Every 100ml of 5% v/v solution will have 5ml of the solute.
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How can you know the percentage of a solution if it is not 100ml?
Divide solute by solution and multiply by 100 :)
- amount of solute
- ------------------------ x 100 = percent solution
- volume of solution
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What does "total volume" mean in regards to solutions?
Total volume would be the solution itself.
If figuring a concentration with solute/solution, total volume would be the solution on the bottom.
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How to calculate the mass of a solute in a solution from the percent concentration.
You have a .9% w/v concentration. You have a total volume of 250mL. How much solute will you need?
- 10 solute
- --- = 2 concentration
- 5 solution
- x solute .9
- ----- .9% ( ----- ) = .009
- 250 mL solution 100
250 x .009 = 2.25g solute :)
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What is the most common unit of concentration in clinical use?
Mass per deciliter.
9mg/dL
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How to figure parts per million or ppm.
- 1g = 1000 mg ( miligrams )
- 1mg = 1000 ug ( micrograms )
- 1L = 1000 mL ( milileters )
- 1ppm = 1ug/mL
1mg/dL = 1000mg/100mL
- 1000mg
- 1mg/dL ------------ = 10ug/mL
- 100mL
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What is a mole?
One mole of an element is 6.022x1023 atoms of that element.
That many atoms of an element will weigh a number of grams equal to the atomic mass ( amu ) of that element.
One mole of Magnesium (Mg) will contain 6.022x1023 atoms of magnesium and weigh 24.31 grams. The amu of Mg is 24.31
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What is molecular weight?
- Molecular weight is the weight ( in amu ) of one molecule of a substance. The molecular weight of H2O is:
- H - 1.008 x 2 = 2.016 amu
- O - 16.000 amu
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- 18.016 amu
One mole of H2O contains 6.022x10 23 molecules of H2O and weighs 18.016 grams.
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What is molarity?
The ratio of mols of solute to liters of solution.
1 mol of glucose in 1 liter of solution is 1mol/L glucose or 1M glucose.
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In any solution ( not suspension, but true solution ) the solute particles ( ions, molecules ) are in constant motion. What affect does this have on the consistency of the solution
This constant motion tends to distribute the solute evently through the solution.
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What is diffusion?
The tendency for particles in a mixture to become uniformly distributed.
The constant motion of the particles and the water molecules tends to keep things evenly mixed.
Solute will diffuse in a solution from higher to lower concentration.
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What is a semipermiable membrane?
A barrier, often between cells in our bodies, that allow some particles, usually smaller ones, to pass through it but not others, like larger ones.
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What is osmosis?
Osmosis is the movement or "net flow" of water through a semipermiable membrane.
Water can pass through both sides of the membrane. If a concentration on one side of the membrane is lower than the other side, then the flow of water will be from low concentration to high concentration.
low concentration -----> high concentration
The flow will continue until both sides have about the same concentration, if possible.
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What is osmotic pressure?
The pressure built up as a result of the flow of solute from a lower concentration to a higher one.
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How does molarity of a solution containing electrolyte or other ionic compound affect osmosis?
For osmosis to occur there must be a difference in molarity ( concentration ) of solution on each side of a membrane.
NaCl by itself is one NaCl molecule. When put in water NaCl dosociates into one Na ion and one Cl ion.
So one mole of NaCl in water becomes 2 moles of ions, 1 mole Na and one mole Cl.
Glucose on the other hand is a molecular compound that will not dissociate in water. The glucose molecules each stay in their molecule form. Since they don't dissociate, 1 mole of sucrose in water will remain a 1 mole solution.
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How do you figure the molarity of an electrolyte in water?
Multiply the number of ions in one mole of the compound by the number of moles of the compound.
2 mole of MgCl2 becomes 1 Mg ion and 2 Cl ions in water - 3 ions x 2 moles = 6 mole solution in water.
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What is the normal solute concentration in blood cells?
.28 M
In concentrations higher than this the solute will not go into the cell.
In concentrations lower than this the solute will go into the cell.
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What is crenation?
When molarity outside a red blood cell is higher than .28M ( more solute, less water than inside the cell ) the cell loses too much water ( lower concentration -----> higher concentration ) and the cell kind of srivels up and dies.
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What is hemolysis?
When the the molarity outside a red blood cell is less than .28M ( less solute, more water than inside the cell ) and water flows into the red blood cell until it bursts.
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What is tonicity?
The relationship between the molarity inside a blood cell and outside the blood cell.
If the solution is also .28M then the solution is isotonic.
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What is isotonic?
Isotonic describes a solution that has a tonicity that is equal to .28M, the tonicity(?) of a blood cell.
"iso" means equal.
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What is hypertonic?
Hypertonic describes a solution that has a higher concentration ( tonicity ) than the tonicity of a blood cell. A blood cell molarity / tonicity is .28M, a hypertonic solution would be higher than that, .35M for example.
"hyper" means above or more than.
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What is hypotonic?
Hypotonic describes a solution that that has a lower concentration ( or tonicity ) than that of a red blood cell. Blood cell tonicity is .28M, a solution of .14M would be "hypotonic".
"hypo" means below or lower than.
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What is dialysis?
Dialysis is the movement of solvent through a membrane.
**Any solute that can move through a membrane will move to the side that has the lowest concentration of that solute.
- Dialysis:
- more solute ----> less solute
If a solute can move through a membrane one direction it can go back through the other way, too. It will go in both directions but mostly from higher to lower concentration.
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If a solution on one side of a membrane has .05M sucrose and .05M gluclose and the other side has .05M sucrose and .1M gluclose will dialysis occur? Will osmosis occure? Which direction?
Since side a and b both have the same amount of sucrose, dialysis will not happen for sucrose.
Since side a has less glucose than side b, dialysis will happen for glucose. The glucose will move through the membrance from side b ( higher amount ) to side a ( lower amount ).
Dialysis: higher amount -----> lower amount
Side a has less total solute and thus more water than side b. So osmosis will occur with water moving from side b to a.
Osmosis: more water -----> less water
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What is an equivalent in medical chemistry?
The amount of any ion that has the same total charge as a mole of hydrogen (H+) ( +1 ) ions.
So if you need the equivalent of K, potassium you need one mole of potassium. K has a +1 charge, same as H so you need the same amount to have an equal charge or equivalent.
If you need an equivalent of Mg ( 2+ ) you would need 1/2 mole of Mg. Or, one mole of Mg equals two equivalents.
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A solution contains .31 mol phosphate ions. How many equivalents of phosphate ions does it contain?
- Ok, lets start with asking what the charge of a phosphate ion is, turns out it's 3-. So one mole of phosphate ions will have 3 equivalents.
- 3 eq
- PO4 -------- 1 mol
- 3Eq
- .31 mol x ------- ( .31 x 3 ) = .93 Eq
- 1 mol
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What is dilution?
Dilution is adding solvent to a solution to reduce the concentration of the solution.
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What is a formula unit?
One group of atoms that make up a compound.
H2O is a compound.
It's made up of 2H and 1O.
1 mole of H2O weighs 18.002g
.15 moles of H2O weighs 2.7003g
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What is osmolarity?
osmolarity = moles of solute / 1L of solution x mole ions per mole solute
Osmolarity = M ( number of moles in one liter of solution ) x the number of ions per mole
If NaCl solution molarity was 2M ( 2 moles NaCl / 1L solution) and each mole has 2 ions ( Na and Cl ) then formula works like:
2M x 2mion / m = 4
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