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padilas [110]
3 years ago
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Why do some scientists prefer to express concentrations of water contaminants in the units ppm and ppb rather than molarity?

Chemistry
1 answer:
ira [324]3 years ago
4 0

Explanation:

These molarity units are used to express very small solute concentrations. Molarity cannot be used to express small amount of solute dissolved in solvents.

parts per million ppm  is a dimensionless quantity that represents the part of a whole number in units of \frac{1}{1000000}

parts per billion ppb represents the part of a whole in units of  \frac{1}{1000000000}

These quantities are useful in determining very small amount of solute like gold concentration in stream sediments.

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