Replies to post #317776 on Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

[Barron4664]

Loan ranger, your last question using the term “an equal amount of R” contradicts your statement that you generally understand concentration. If I dissolve precisely 1 lb of salt in 1 gal of water and 1 lb of sugar in 1 gal of water I will have different concentrations because salt and sugar have different molecular weights. What the statement means is that the amount of B necessary to achieve a similar concentration of R was more effective than R.

[PlentyParanoid]

LR, if the concentration is expressed in Mols, as I think it is in this case (10 uM keeps coming in mind) then it would mean that both B and R have the same number of molecules per unit of volume AND biologists could say:
".. B is more effective in the inhibition of the coronavirus relative to an equal amount of R"

That's the beauty of using Mols.

Now, If Leo & Co are using something like weight/volume then the situation is a tad different. In this case you have equal weights per same volume. That is equality in, say, on scale used to calculate shipping cost, but not in biological sense.

I always make sense, don't I. Clear as day etc