Talk:pH

Areas of improvement

I identified several areas for improvement that I believe will improve the readability, accessibility, and comprehensiveness of the article. Firstly, to update the page on its application, I will increase the number of real-world examples in the article to help readers understand the practical applications of pH in various fields. This will make the content more engaging and accessible to readers who do not have a background in chemistry or science. I'll add clear subheadings to make the article easier to navigate and understand. This will help readers find the information they need faster while also making the content more organized. Finally, in order to improve the clarity of the images, I'll go over the images in the article and revise their captions to provide more detail and context for the reader. I'll also look for ways to include more diverse images that show how pH can be used in real-world situations. Veggietaquito (talk) 04:15, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

For chemists, comprehensiveness of the chemical parts of the article is very high. But for non-chemical audience adding the  examples of practical application  for "real-world" cases may be useful for the improvement of readability  . ChemEdit (talk) 13:44, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

You cannot log something with a unit/dimension. You either log the absolute value, or you log the concentration/activity divided by some reference concentration/activity. Compare dB (decibel). The reason is that log can be substituted by its MacLaurin series and otherwise you would end up with a sum of dimensionless + unit + unit squared + unit cubed and so on. 83.223.9.100 (talk) 08:43, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm mildly surprised to see " An alternative method of measuring pH is using an electronic pH meter" as if this is not the standard and people who work with water chemistry as part of their job are out there staring at what color the water is, hoping to pase out the ph that way. This seems more like a something students in a lab would be doing as opposed to a day-to-day thing. Maybe I'm wrong, but in my line of work everyone uses an electronic meter. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:06, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

At the very beginning of this, the "p" is said to be "potential", and this is internally linked to "electric potential". This is misleading (notwithstanding that later it is linked to an electric potential in an electrochemical cell in "hydrogen electrode"). The original "p" was short for the German word "Potenz", meaning "potency". "Potential" is OK in English, meaning the inherent ability to do something - low pH means likely to corrode, dissolve, etc. Bobgid (talk) 18:48, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

p[H] subsection

For the p{H} subsection, wouldn't it be more appropriate to have the title "p_H." ? Since we are basing off this pH definition from Soresen and he defines it as such, not p[H]. Veggietaquito (talk) 17:29, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Only if you're very careful with your typography! A lower case p with a subscripted H looks awfully like a big P in front of a smaller H! Since "pH" is always printed like that, I think it more sensible to leave it as p[H], where the "p" is funtioning as a sort of mathematical operator: "minus log(10) of", and the [H] is what it's operating on. Also used frequently in pOH, pCl, p[acetate], etc. Bobgid (talk) 19:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

pH

pH is the measure of the ionic compound called what.

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97.75.132.248 (talk) 15:00, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Can you give me a inflation rate

Can you give me a inflation rate 112.198.134.170 (talk) 11:16, 4 February 2025 (UTC)