"Molar solution" is shorthand for 1 Molar solution I would guess. It's common to elide items in text/conversation when the missing element is understood.
If I am walking out the door and say, "Going to the drugstore.", then clearly, I've omitted the subject, the initial reference to myself, "I". It's an example of ellipsis, a common syntactic device, esp. in conversation. http://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/1192 In Robert Fulghum's book "Uh-Oh", the third sentence is, "And have used it all our lives." He also wrote the very popular, "All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten". Quite an interesting fellow, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum - Bob Futrelle BioNLP.org On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Michael Miller < michael.mil...@systemsbiology.org> wrote: > hi lena, > > > > after looking at wikipedia i see what you mean that it isn't a unit per se, > it is a concentration of a solution, that is by definition a combination of > a value of 1 with an SI unit of 1 mol\L. so it is certainly a property of > the solution but i don't see how it is a datatype. in programming terms i > define a variable to be of a certain datatype: > > > > int count = 5 > > > > what does it mean to say, > > > > Molar solution = ?? > > > > cheers, > > michael > > > >