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What is a definition of an osmole

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What is a definition of an osmole? The amount of substance that:

  1. must be dissolved to produce 6 × 1023 solute particles.
  2. must be dissolved to produce an osmotic pressure of 1.0 mmHg.
  3. must be dissolved to produce an isotonic solution.
  4. contains 6 × 1023 particles.
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saraalalwane
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A: Ionic substances (e.g. Na+Cl−) separate into ions when dissolved.

Hence a mole of NaCl would produce two osmoles of ions (one mole of Na ions and one mole of Cl ions). Hence half of a mole of NaCl, when dissolved, would result in one osmole of dissolved particles (ions).

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