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millimolar

millimolar

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Having a concentration of one thousandth of a mole in one liter of liquid
  • adjective
  • /ˌmɪlɪˈmoʊlər/
  • Specialized
: milimolar
  • The researcher prepared a millimolar solution for the chemical reaction to ensure accurate results.

Examples

  • Nuclear medicine techniques such as PET and single-photon emission computer tomography, or SPECT, are sensitive enough to detect nanomolar concentrations, whereas MRI methods typically detect concentrations in the millimolar range.

    Academic text (2004)

  • So units, you know, it could be anything from millimolar, micromolar, nanomolar, etcetera here.

  • In the lab, we used a millimolar concentration to study the enzyme's activity.

  • He measured the millimolar concentration of the drug in the patient's blood for his report.

Surface Forms

millimolar positive

Morphology

millimolar = molar (transparent) = milli + molar

The SI prefix 'milli-' (one thousandth) attaches to the technical adjective 'molar' in a standard, directly compositional way.

Etymology

The word millimolar comes from the parts milli- meaning 'one thousandth' and molar meaning 'mole per liter', and you can remember milli- from millimeter. So, a millimolar solution has 'one thousandth of a mole per liter'.