MOLALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does molality mean? 

• MOLALITY (noun)
  The noun MOLALITY has 1 sense:

1. concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent

  Familiarity information: MOLALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

molal concentration; molality

Hypernyms ("molality" is a kind of...):

concentration (the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume)

Derivation:

molal (designating a solution containing one mole of solute per kilogram of solvent)

 Context examples 

A unit of amount of substance content (molality unit) defined as one mole of solute per one milligram of solvent.

(Mole per Milligram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit amount of substance content (molality unit) defined as one mole of solute per one kilogram of solvent.

(Mole per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of amount of substance content (molality unit) defined as one mole of solute per one gram of solvent.

(Mole per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of amount of substance content (molality unit) defined as one thousandth of mole (10E-3 mole) of solute per one kilogram of solvent.

(Millimole per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

A molality unit that describes the amount of substance, expressed in femtomole(s) per gram.

(Femtomole per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)