A liter of normal saline, which is composed of water and salt, has a weight of approximately 1 kilogram or 1000 grams at room temperature.
The cost of 1 liter of normal saline can vary depending on location and provider, but typically it ranges from about $5 to $10.
To make normal saline, you would need to add 9 grams of sodium chloride to one liter of water. This is equivalent to approximately 0.9% saline solution.
The weight of saline solution depends on its volume and concentration. The density of saline solution is approximately 1.025 grams per milliliter, so a liter of saline solution would weigh about 1.025 kilograms. For smaller quantities, you can calculate the weight by multiplying the volume in milliliters by the density in grams per milliliter.
Normal saline is 0.9% weight/volume sodium chloride to water. This is 9 grams per litre. NaCl has a molecular weight of 58.5, sodium (Na) has a weight of 23, which is 39.3% of the molecular weight. So sodium is 39.3% of the weight. 1 litre of saline has 9 grams, 250ml is a quarter of a litre, so has 9/4 grams = 2.25 grams. 39.3% of 2.25 g is 0.884 grams of sodium.
It depends on what the liter contains.
kg is a measure of weight; liter is a measure of volume
1g of NaCl is about 17 mmol Na. thus, 15g of Na is about 255 mmol Na. 1 L of normal saline (0.9%) gives 154mmol Na. so, about 1.66L of normal saline gives about 255 mmnol Na. Edited by dejswa . . . 15 g of Na (molecular wt of ~23) is actually 652 mmol of Na. You were calculating the mmol of NaCl. This gives about 4.2 liters of normal saline. Or calculated another way, 0.91% (normal) saline is 9.1 gm of NaCl per liter. Na is ~40% of the wt of NaCl, thus 15 gm of Na represents 37.5 grams of NaCl. Divide by 9.1 and you get about the same answer. That would be quite a deficit of Na. You would have to sweat about 19 liters to lose that much Na, but an 8 hr mtn bike race in the Texas summer would do it.
A liter is a unit of volume not weight, therefore to determine how much a liter weighs it depends on what you're measuring. A liter of water has a different weight than a liter of sand and so on.
Normal saline solution has a sodium chloride concentration of 9 g/L.
The weight of a liter of propylene glycol is approximately 1.036 kilograms.
The weight of 1 liter of ethanol is approximately 0.789 kg.