Scientists use a scale called the pH scale to measure how acidic or basic something is. The scale runs from 0 to 14. Where 0 is the most acidic and 14 is the most basic. Around the middle we have ...

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The Danish chemist was the head of Carlsberg Laboratory at the time of the scale's creation, and died in 1939 at 71 years old. Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I remember learning about acids and bases (or ...

Defining “basic” is anything but. While basicness is commonly understood as a binary, close scrutiny—in the form of a weekend on Long Island—has reminded me that this is far from the case. Like ...