PH
What is PH ?
The term "pH" was first described by Danish biochemist Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen in 1909. pH is an abbreviation for "power of hydrogen" where "p" is short for the German word for power, potenz and H is the element symbol for hydrogen. The H is capitalized because it is standard to capitalize element symbols. The abbreviation also works in French, with pouvoir hydrogen translating as "the power of hydrogen".
The term "pH" was first described by Danish biochemist Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen in 1909. pH is an abbreviation for "power of hydrogen" where "p" is short for the German word for power, potenz and H is the element symbol for hydrogen. The H is capitalized because it is standard to capitalize element symbols. The abbreviation also works in French, with pouvoir hydrogen translating as "the power of hydrogen".
pH is a measure of the hydorgen ion concentration of a solution.
Solutions with a high concentration of hydrogen ions have a low pH and solutions
with a low concentrations of H+ ions have a high pH. This may seem like
a confusion way to express these reationships, and it is, until you understand
what pH stands for. The equation that defines pH is given as follows:
pH=-log[H+] concentration,
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