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HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The number of moles of hydrogen ions per cubic decimeter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hydrogen ion concentration" is a kind of...):
concentration (the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydrogen ion concentration"):
pH; pH scale ((from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic))