🧪 Mpaminavina pH

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The pH scale measures how acidic or basic a solution is, defined as the negative base-10 logarithm of the hydrogen-ion concentration: pH = −log₁₀[H⁺], where [H⁺] is in moles per litre. Because it is logarithmic, each whole pH unit is a tenfold change in acidity — a pH 4 solution has ten times the [H⁺] of pH 5 and a hundred times that of pH 6. The scale runs from strongly acidic near 0, through neutral at 7, to strongly basic near 14. This calculator converts a concentration to pH, a pH back to concentration, or starts from pOH.

As a worked example, pure water has [H⁺] = 1 × 10⁻⁷ mol/L, so pH = −log₁₀(10⁻⁷) = 7, which is neutral. A solution with [H⁺] = 10⁻³ mol/L has pH 3 and is acidic; one with pH 11 is strongly basic. The tool also returns pOH and the hydroxide concentration [OH⁻], using the water relationship pH + pOH = 14 at 25 °C — so pH 3 implies pOH 11 and [OH⁻] = 10⁻¹¹ mol/L — and labels the result acidic, neutral or basic.

pH governs a huge range of everyday and industrial processes: the safety of drinking water and swimming pools, soil conditions for gardening, food preservation and brewing, the action of enzymes in the body (blood is tightly held near pH 7.4), and countless chemistry and biology experiments. Note that the 14-point span and the pH + pOH = 14 rule are specific to 25 °C; at other temperatures the neutral point and the sum shift slightly because water’s self-ionisation changes.