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Qube
Sep6-11, 07:28 PM
Here's a quickie. Since the pH scale is based on powers of 10, would a pH of 12 indicate that a substance is 10^6 times more basic than a substance with a pH of 6?

Borek
Sep7-11, 02:41 AM
No. pH is not a property of the substance, it is a property of the solution.

106 is the ratio of concentrations of H+ (or OH-), not directly related to substance basicity.