Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Since it was thought it's cool to have a pH scale of 0 to 14, and pure water in the middle of it. Actually, I'm not 100% sure of the origin, it probably has a greater reason than the one I mentioned.
wolfson Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 In pure water, the hydrogen ion (hydroxonium ion) concentration must be equal to the hydroxide ion concentration. [OH-] term in the Kw expression by another [H+]. [H+]2 = 1.00 x 10-14 Taking the square root of each side gives: [H+] = 1.00 x 10-7 mol dm-3 Converting that into pH: pH = - log10 [H+] pH = 7
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Ahh yes, the logarithm thing. I knew it had something to do with those, but since I'm going to have my first logarithm lessons (ever) in a week or so, I had no idea it goes that way.
dryan Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Since it was thought it's cool to have a pH scale of 0 to 14, and pure water in the middle of it. Yeah, but 10M HCl has a pH of -1, and 10M BaOH has a pH of 15, so the scale from 0-14 only works for dilute acids and bases (less than 1M)
Gilded Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Yeah, but the usual scale is 0-14. Of course, there are incredibly strong acids that don't even need to have H+ or OH-.
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