Number density

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In physics, number density is the number of certain objects (particles, sound waves, galaxies, copies of Physics World, etc.) per volume:

where

n is the number density,

N is the total number of entities

V is the volume.

Conversely, the total number of entities can be written as

where

dV is a volume element.

The number density of solutes in a solvent is called concentration.