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Where does the pH scale come from?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Somebody's mind. It's a convenient way to represent the hydrogen (actually hydronium, actually a lot more complicated even than that) ion concentration, which stretches over many orders of magnitude in typical substances, making a logarithmic scale a lot more practical than a linear one.

pH is just the negative log of the H+ (actually... you know the drill) concentration (in moles per liter).

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12y ago

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