Meant to be used in both the teaching and research laboratory, this calculator (see below) can be utilized to perform dilution factor calculations. When a concentrated solution is diluted, the dilution factor may be expressed as the ratio of the concentration of stock solution to the concentration of the diluted solution. The dilution factor may also be expressed as the ratio of the volume of the final diluted solution to the initial volume removed from the stock solution. See below for the dilution factor equation.
For example, if 100 mL of a stock solution is diluted with solvent/diluent to a total, final volume of 1000 mL, the resulting dilution factor is 10. For this particular dilution, it may also be said that the stock solution was diluted 10-fold. As another example, a 2-fold dilution is the same as a dilution factor of 2. Therefore, dilution by any factor X is equivalent to X-fold dilution.
Please note that the dilution factor calculator below uses the metric unit for volume (fL, pL, nL, μL, mL, and L). If you wish to convert these units to other volume units, please use our Unit Conversion Calculator.
Additional dilution factor calculators are also available and are suited to more specialized applications (see here).
