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Is a .5% glucose solution or a .5 M glucose solution more concentrated.

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Answer:

0.5 M glucose solution is more concentrated.

Explanations

What is concentration?

Concentration is defined as the measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance.

From the question given, we are to determine which of the solution is more concentrated.

For the 0.5% glucose solution, we will convert it to molarity as shown:

0.5% glucose solution means that there are 0.5 grams for each 100mL of the solution.

Since the molarity is obtained in mol/L of solution, 1L of the solution will conatin 5g of glucose.

Molarity = Mass/Molar mass of glucose

Molarity = 5g/180.156 = 0.028M

Since 0.028M glucose solution is less than 0.5M glucose solution, this shows that 0.5 M glucose solution is more concentrated.

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