concentration
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- noun
- /ˌkɒnsənˈtreɪʃən/
- Specialized
- Scientists are studying the concentration of pollutants in the river to assess environmental impact.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd we found that the ingredients have very different concentrations than in solar system materials.
- And we found that the ingredients have very different concentrations than in solar system materials.
- There are some alcohol products like kombucha that has a higher alcohol concentration that's healthy for your gut.
- It's not a function of the concentration of the constant.
- The D product DT is some function of concentration raised to some power.
- What I have discovered is that this protein in normal low concentration leads to memory.
- It's not the same processing or concentration of cells.
- A better way to predict risk is to add up the concentration of all the APOP particles.
- And we'll say, well, why didn't you do a higher concentration?
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For example, when factories burn coal, they release high concentrations of sulfur oxides.
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The DuPont Company has advised the Lubeck Water District that low concentrations have been found in the district's wells.
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OK, The analysis that was done was mostly to find the concentration of the air.
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So this is the local concentration driving force in the device.
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It's the same as the concentration in plasma, right?
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So E is the concentration of the incoming salt.
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The UK population has one of the highest average cholesterol concentrations in the world.
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Preliminary tests indicate the victim had a high concentration of serotonin in the brain stem.
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Thus, all samples had a final concentration of 0.5% HCl and 2% HNO3.
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Follow-up investigation attributed the high concentration to a recent over-treatment of a nearby pond with simazine.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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An amount of something you can measure or count
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How much effect a medicine, liquid, or signal has
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The amount of a substance in something, for example fat or alcohol
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A measure of how much of a substance is in a liquid, for example antibodies in the blood
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The amount of tiny dissolved particles in a liquid that is measured per liter
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The amount of dissolved particles in one kilogram of a liquid
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The number of moles of dissolved substance in one kilogram of liquid like water
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The amount of dissolved substance in one liter of solution
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Amount of a substance dissolved in one liter of solution measured in moles per liter
The amount of dissolved substance in each kilogram of the liquid that holds it
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
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A place where many people are imprisoned without trial in harsh, crowded conditions
A Nazi camp near Munich where the government locked up and killed Jews and other people during the Holocaust
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A camp in southwest Poland where Nazis killed many people, mostly Jewish people, during World War II
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A gradual change in the amount of a dissolved substance from high to low across a space
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A place like a prison in northwest Germany where Nazis held and killed many Jewish people during World War II
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A camp in central Germany run by the Nazis where many people are imprisoned and killed during World War II
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A place or situation where people are kept under very harsh, crowded, and controlled conditions
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Amount of a substance dissolved in one liter of solution measured in moles per liter
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The amount of hydrogen ions in a liquid that shows how acidic it is
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The amount of dissolved substance in each kilogram of the liquid that holds it
How Concentrated
Surface Forms
Morphology
concentration = concentrate (transparent) = concentrate + ion
A standard nominalization of the verb 'concentrate' with the productive suffix '-ion'; learners who know the verb can infer the noun meaning.
Etymology
Concentration comes from the parts con- 'together' and center 'middle', so it originally meant 'bringing things to the middle'. That's why in science it now describes how much of a substance is crowded together in a solution.