Re: A question of pH?



On Wed, 28 May 2008 08:28:32 +0100, "Paul C." <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

,;I teach science and recently some colleague and I came across a problem with
,;pH.
,;
,;Traditionally, we are taught that pH is on a scale of 1 - 14. However, one
,;of the text books we use has an example of a pH of -5, but does not provide
,;an explanation.
,;
,;I've search all over and the only information I can find is an unsourced
,;reference on wikipedia.

google "negative pH" over two million hits. Where in hell did you do
your searching?

Several decent explanations on the first page!!!
,;
,;Does anyone have any explanations for this minus pH?
,;
,;Cheers
,;
,;Paul

.



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