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Everything about PH
Measure of the level of acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution
In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of aqueous solutions. Acidic solutions are measured to have lower pH values than basic or alkaline solutions. While the origin of the symbol 'pH' can be traced back to its original inventor, and the 'H' refers clearly to hydrogen, the exact original meaning of the letter 'p' in pH is still disputed; it has since acquired a more general technical meaning that is used in numerous other contexts. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PHA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: pH/Glucose Dual Responsive Metformin Release Hydrogel Dressings with Adhesion and Self-Healing via Dual-Dynamic Bonding for Athletic Diabetic Foot Wound HealingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Andromeda StrainThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPYCited 19,122 times
- Go sideways: Self-ionization of waterA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Acid dissociation constantA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Abbreviation of phot.
Noun Initialism of physical health.
Noun Misspelling of pH.
Adverb Initialism of phonetically: A notation used in transcripts to indicate that the transcriber is unsure of the spelling, usually of a name, and has spelled phonetically.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil
Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale
Anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH
Thermo- and pH-responsive polymers in drug delivery☆
Determination of Total Monomeric Anthocyanin Pigment Content of Fruit Juices, Beverages, Natural Colorants, and Wines by the pH Differential Method: Collaborative Study
Visualizing secretion and synaptic transmission with pH-sensitive green fluorescent proteins
Self-Supported Nanoporous Cobalt Phosphide Nanowire Arrays: An Efficient 3D Hydrogen-Evolving Cathode over the Wide Range of pH 0–14
🆕 Influential since 2022
pH/Glucose Dual Responsive Metformin Release Hydrogel Dressings with Adhesion and Self-Healing via Dual-Dynamic Bonding for Athletic Diabetic Foot Wound Healing
Hydrogen bond network connectivity in the electric double layer dominates the kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis on Pt
Preparation and application of pH-responsive drug delivery systems
Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting
Electronic Structure Engineering of Single‐Atom Ru Sites via Co–N4 Sites for Bifunctional pH‐Universal Water Splitting
📚 Books worth reading
The Andromeda StrainMichael Crichton · 1969
The Phantom TollboothNorton Juster · 1961
SorstalanságImre Kertész · 1975
Crystallography and surface structureKlaus Hermann · 2011
Biochemistry and human metabolismBurnham Sarle Walker, William C. Boyd · 1952
Philippe Suchard (1797-1884)Christa Edlin · 1992
Kalevalan mytologiaJuha Pentikäinen · 1989
Implicit parallel programming in pHRishiyur Nikhil, Arvind · 2001
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Acid dissociation constant In chemistry, an acid dissociation constant (also known as acidity constant, or acid-ionization constant; denoted Ka) is a quantitative measure of the…
- Weak base A weak base is a base that does not accept all the available H+ ions, and forms an equilibrium between the base and its conjugate acid. Upon dissolution…
- Buffer solution A buffer solution is a solution whose pH does not change significantly on dilution or if a small amount of strong acid or base is added to it at constant…
- Neutralization (chemistry) In chemistry, neutralization or neutralisation (see spelling differences) is a chemical reaction in which acid and a base react with an equivalent quantity…
- Gran plot A Gran plot (also known as Gran titration or the Gran method) is a common means of standardizing a titrate or titrant by estimating the equivalence volume…
- Determination of equilibrium constants Equilibrium constants are determined in order to quantify chemical equilibria. When an equilibrium constant K is expressed as a concentration quotient…
- Pourbaix diagram In electrochemistry, and more generally in solution chemistry, a Pourbaix diagram, also known as a potential/pH diagram, EH–pH diagram or a pE/pH diagram…