Concentration Introduction to Concentration One very important property of solutions that must be addressed is concentration .
Concentration generally refers to the amount of solute contained in a certain amount of solution .
To deal with concentration you must keep in mind the distinctions between solute, solvent and solution. Because varying amounts of solute can be dissolved in a solution, concentration is a variable property and we often need to have a numerical way of indicating how concentrated a solution happens to be. Over the years a variety of ways have developed for calculating and expressing the concentration of solutions. In the pages that follow, several types of concentration will be presented. You will get experience with more than one way of establishing the concentration of solutions.