## mole vs. M

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### mole vs. M

Hello, I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post it but I just had a general clarifying question. At first, I thought that moles and M were the same thing, so I'm a little confused. Does M represent mol•L^-1?

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### Re: mole vs. M

Yes, M indicates molarity (mol•L^-1) and mol indicates moles.

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### Re: mole vs. M

Moles are typically written out as moles or mol.

M is used to designate molarity, which is defined as $mol/L$.

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### Re: mole vs. M

M represents molarity, so the units are mol/L like you said. Moles are often written as mol, so the molarity is the amount of moles per liter of solution.

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### Re: mole vs. M

M is molarity or moles per liter.

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### Re: mole vs. M

You're right M means is molarity and represents moles per Liter.

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### Re: mole vs. M

yes, so when you see that a solution is 4M, that means that it has 4 moles of solute per liter of solvent and you would call the solution a 4 molar solution.

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### Re: mole vs. M

Hey, I am trying to create a new post because I had a question about the Sapling HW. However, I do not see an option to create a new post for me. I can only reply to other posts. Could someone please tell me how to create a new topic? It would be nice if someone could upload a screenshot of their page and showed which button to press! Thank you!!

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### Re: mole vs. M

Yes, M refers to molarity which is mole/volume

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### Re: mole vs. M

Yes M is mol * L^-1

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### Re: mole vs. M

Hi!

M refers to molarity which is the same thing as mol/L

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### Re: mole vs. M

Yes M represents molarity while a mole is just a mole!

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### Re: mole vs. M

Mol is different from M because M is used to measure concentration in the units M * L^-1.

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### Re: mole vs. M

yup M is molarity which is mol/L

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### Re: mole vs. M

M is molarity. Moles will be referred to as mol or moles.

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### Re: mole vs. M

M is concentration in mol/L. moles will be expressed as mol or mole

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### Re: mole vs. M

Kiran_Marla_3A wrote:Hey, I am trying to create a new post because I had a question about the Sapling HW. However, I do not see an option to create a new post for me. I can only reply to other posts. Could someone please tell me how to create a new topic? It would be nice if someone could upload a screenshot of their page and showed which button to press! Thank you!!

Hello! To create a new post you have to click the board index button at the top of the screen, it’s located right about the blue like button and it has a little house icon. Once you click that you can scroll towards the bottom and there you will see the general topics under 14B and once you click one you can choose a more specific topic that corresponds to what you’re going to post and then once you click that you should see an icon at the top that says new post! Hope this helps!