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What is pH scale and how does it help determine a acid or base?
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∙ 12y ago
pH is a shortcut way of expressing the negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration. It's scale is widely malunderstood. People will argue til the cows come home that the scale of pH is from 1 to 14. BUT, since it is theoretically possible to have up to 100% H+, the log of100 is 2 inverting the sign to meet the definition shows that a pH of -2 is possible and is the lowest point on that scale. Since the concentration can also approach zero, the negative log will approach infinity as a limit. However, most pH scales are used as 1 to 14 even though that is NOT technically correct.
14 is used as a neutral solution will have a pH of 7 and a pOH of 7.
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