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What is a base

In chemistry, a base is the opposite of an acid. It has a pH higher than 7. When mixed with an acid it forms a neutral solution with a pH of 7.

acid + base = water + salt.

properties include: bitterness, slimy or soapy, and turns litmus paper blue.

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A base is also an article on which something stands or a military installation.

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In sports, a base is one of four plaques fixed to the ground (or other object designated for this function) that must be touched by a runner, without being touched by the ball that is in play, before he or she can score a point in the game.
Base: a substance which when added to water produces hydroxide ions [OH-].

Base Properties: When dissolved in water, bases Conduct electricity Change red litmus to blue Have a slippery feeling React with acids to neutralize their properties."

What is pH

PH is short for the power of Hydrogen. It's the measure of acidity or alkalinity in a solution. In pure water at 77°F, The hydrogen ions are equal to the concentration of hydroxide ions. This is the "neutral" marking and means the pH level is 7.0.

In solutions where the hydrogen ions exceed the concentration of hydroxide ions, the pH falls below 7.0 and is an acid.

In solutions where the hydroxide ions exceed the concentration of hydrogen ions, the pH rises above 7.0 and is a base. The pH of a substance tells if it's an acid, neutral, or a base.

With all deference to the asker and to the previous answerer, technically substances don't have pH's. Aqueous solutions have pH's, and the pH tells you (on a logarithmic scale) the concentration of H+ (or more precisely H3O+) in that solution. A substance is an acid if it lowers the pH of a solution when it is dissolved. It does this by donating protons (H+'s) to water molecules to create more H3O+. A substance is a base if it increases the pH of a solution by accepting a proton from water molecules to form OH-. H3O+ and OH- are in equilibrium with each other in solution, so the more OH- you create, the less H3O+ will be in solution and the higher the pH. So a better answer to the question is that "The pH of a solution tells you if its an acidic, neutral, or basic solution."


pH is the cologarithm of the activity of dissolved H+ (or sometimes written H3O+) ions (aka. Protons) in a solution, and measures the acidity/basicity of it. The Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen came up with the idea in 1909.

* The p in pH has an unknown meaning, but is accepted to mean 'power' or 'potential'. * A pH of 7.0 is said to be neutral, and pure water in standard conditions is a pH of 7. * A pH of less than 7 is acidic, and a pH of more than 7 is basic. * The pH scale usually ranges from 0 to 14, but negative values have been observed. * H2SO4 (sulfuric/battery acid) is extremely acidic, and NaOH (caustic soda/lye) is extremely basic. * pH= -log[H+]



The pH scale measures the hydrogen ion concentration of a substance. A low pH indicates an acidic substance with many H ions while a high pH indicates a basic substance containing few H ions.
ph is the abbreviation for Philippines.

What is the pH of water

The pH of highly purified water is exactly 7.0 by definition.

NO: the Ph scale. pH is ALWAYS spelled in exactly this way, and not in some other way that you made up.

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The third sentence is correct: it is pH, not Ph.

Which of the following is a strong acid

HCI (Hydrochloric acid)

What is the relationship between pH and pOH

pH + pOH = 14

What kind of fraction has a value less than 1

1/2 is less than one.

What property is used to calculate the pH of a solution

The hydrogen ion concentration in mol/L

What is true of a Lewis acid

A Lewis acid accepts electron pairs.

Which of the following is an example of a conjugate acid-base pair

H2S and HS-

What is always true of a weak base

Some of the original base remains in the solution

is slippery a property of bases

Yes. It is a property of base.

Which of the following is a weak base NH3 KOH LiOH or NaOH

Ammonia solution is a weak base.

What of the following is a characteristic of a weak acid

It does not dissociate completely in water

which of the following is an example of an Arrhenius acid

HI

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