Definition of Molality

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

Exact synonyms: Molal Concentration
Generic synonyms: Concentration
Derivative terms: Molal

Definition of Molality

1. Noun. (chemistry) the concentration of a substance in solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent ¹

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Definition of Molality

1. the number of moles of solute per liter of solvent [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Molality

1. Moles of solute per kilogram of solvent; the molarity is equal to mρ/(1 + mM), where m is the molality, ρ is the density of the solution, and M is the molar mass of the solute. Compare: molarity. Abbreviation: m (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Molality

moki
mokihi
mokihis
mokis
moko
mokoro
mokos
moksa
moky
mol
mol wt
mola
molal
molal concentration
molalities
molality (current term)
molar
molar(a)
molar absorbancy index
molar absorption coefficient
molar absorptivity
molar behaviour
molar concentration
molar extinction coefficient
molar glands
molar heat capacity
molar pregnancy
molar solution
molar tooth

Literary usage of Molality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI) by B. N. Taylor (1995)
"One should use instead the term molality of solute B and the unit mol/kg or ... (A solution having, for example, a molality of 1 mol/kg was often called a ..."

2. An Advanced Course of Instruction in Chemical Principles by Arthur Amos Noyes, Miles Standish Sherrill (1922)
"... and which incidentally expresses the composition of the solution in terms either of molality or of molal concentration (denned as in Art. 35), ..."

3. Nuclear Production Of Hydrogen: Second Information Exchange Meeting, Argonne by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"By increasing HI molality of the HIx solution using such processes to over-quasi-azeotropic molality, since the volatility of HI is very high in the ..."

4. Modelling in Aquatic Chemistry by Ingmar Grenthe, Ignasi Puigdomenech, Bert Allard (1997)
"Table II.4: Factors Q for the conversion of molarity, CB, to molality, me, of a substance B, in various media (calculated from densities in ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"molality of TABLE XXXIII. TABLE XXXIV. Normality of Normality of hydrochloric Ki. 0.0091 0.0238 0.0445 0.0557 0.0790 0.0069 0.0125 0.0215 0.0325 0.0545 ..."

6. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"The observed oxygen and hydrogen isotope salt effects in the single salt solutions are all linear with molality of the salt solutions, ..."

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