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I’m an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for ‘pretend’.

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Isn’t it Potential of Hydrogen?

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That’s what I was taught back in 6th Grade.

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For what it’s worth, my job is as an analytical chemist, dealing with pH readings every single day, and I’ve always thought this was correct.

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Are We Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

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Same for me

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The funny thing is that I intellectually knew that there were plenty of non-English speaking scientists, but that knowledge was never considered.

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Something like that. It’s an incredibly weird term.

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