Repeat solutions - This section tells you how to create each of the dilutions past the starting solution.It tells you the starting volume needed, and tells you how to make that from the volume of stock solution required and the volume of dilutant to be added, provided you know the stock solution concentration. Starting solution composition - This section deals with the creation of the starting solution.This value can be inputted directly if you already know it. The calculation for this is volume per use * number of uses per dilution * error. Minimum volume required - The volume that should be left in your dilution after you have removed an amount of it for the next dilution.

If you don't know how to calculate percentage error, check our percent error calculator. The former will add that percent onto the volume to be left, while the latter will add the pipetting error (you can find this on your pipette) on to the volume.

Error type - Either percentage error or pipette error.

Number of uses per dilution - The number of repeats per solution.

Volume per use - How much solution you need per concentration for your experiment.

Starting solution concentration - The concentration of the first solution in the series, not the concentration of the stock solution.

Please input integer values into this field. Any other number will be the number of solutions you are making, including the starting solution. A 1 in this field calculates if you are making the starting solution from the stock solution, and will alter the fields accordingly.

Number of dilutions - This is the number of solutions you are preparing.

Each dilution separated by the same dilution factor, which is calculated for you. Concentrations range requires you to provide the concentration of the initial and final solutions. The dilution factor between solutions is the same for all dilutions. Dilution factor allows you to input the dilution factor that separates one solution and the next.

Method - You have two choices, dilution factor and concentration range.

It may be useful to you if we elucidate some of the terms in this serial dilution calculator: Serial dilutions have many uses that are mainly related to chemistry and biology. The dilution factor calculator at each step does not have to be constant, but it is for this calculator. A more exact serial dilution definition is that it is a stepwise dilution of a solution, that is repeated a certain number of times and in which the concentration decreases with each step.

A serial dilution is a kind of solution dilution.

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