"Percentage solution" is an ambiguous term which is used to describe a solution with the unit "%". It may refer to:
- Mass fraction (chemistry) if mass/mass ("% w/w") is meant
- Mass concentration (chemistry) if mass/volume ("% w/v") is meant (see also Usage in biology)
- Volume concentration if volume/volume ("% v/v") is meant
Famous quotes containing the words percentage and/or solution:
“There is a potential 4-6 percentage point net gain for the President [George Bush] by replacing Dan Quayle on the ticket with someone of neutral stature.”
—Mary Matalin, U.S. Republican political advisor, author, and James Carville b. 1946, U.S. Democratic political advisor, author. All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, p. 205, Random House (1994)
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)