The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).
It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.
Puttaneska@lemmy.world
on 11 Jun 02:57
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Negative log of the concentration of…(Hydrogen ions, in pH).
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
on 11 Jun 03:04
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Phat-ass hydrogen
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
on 11 Jun 06:04
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Søren Sørensen, who came up with the concept of pH, wasn’t clear on what the letter “p” meant. It does involve powers of 10 and can be measured using electrical potentials, so the best guesses are “potential” or “power”, or several words that mean “power” in other languages and also happen to start with “p”. Bottom line, we don’t know, and unless somebody discovers more of Sørensen’s notes or a way to speak with the dead, we never will.
We can all speak to the dead. The problem is that they can’t answer.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
on 11 Jun 18:51
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That’s why I was careful to say, “speak with dead,” (after the D&D spell) implying a conversation.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
on 11 Jun 07:44
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Protons. As in protons, How many. On a weird logarithmic scale with 7 in the middle, of course.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 11 Jun 17:27
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The p is for potential, as in potential Hydrogen. pH can be used to establish a concentration of protium (H+) in solution. When learning about pH in school, we used pOH (potential hydroxide) as well to speak about bases.
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Oh we’re going to pHight today, is that it?
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It’s not probably?
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I’m french, what does this say?
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Je crois que il a besoin de VPN pour voir ce méme
That’s actually an interesting one.
The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).
It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.
All those words have the same meaning.
And the same origin, it’s not a coincidence they all start with P
There’s also pico-, prefix for 10^-12
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Negative log of the concentration of…(Hydrogen ions, in pH).
Phat-ass hydrogen
Søren Sørensen, who came up with the concept of pH, wasn’t clear on what the letter “p” meant. It does involve powers of 10 and can be measured using electrical potentials, so the best guesses are “potential” or “power”, or several words that mean “power” in other languages and also happen to start with “p”. Bottom line, we don’t know, and unless somebody discovers more of Sørensen’s notes or a way to speak with the dead, we never will.
We can all speak to the dead. The problem is that they can’t answer.
That’s why I was careful to say, “speak with dead,” (after the D&D spell) implying a conversation.
Protons. As in protons, How many. On a weird logarithmic scale with 7 in the middle, of course.
The p is for potential, as in potential Hydrogen. pH can be used to establish a concentration of protium (H+) in solution. When learning about pH in school, we used pOH (potential hydroxide) as well to speak about bases.
penis
Kek
Potencial de hidrógeno
Easy. Pico Henry. Not sure why chemists are so concerned with such a small amount of magnetism though…
I don’t get what the joke is
Nobody actually knows what the p means but we keep using it anyway. The guy who coined it is long dead.
Doesn’t it mean “potential” ?
Potentially, yes
Is it debated ?
Yes, and also, whoosh
I thought it was “power”. That’s probably wrong though.
Potentially
Why is there a random watermark on an xkcd? The original is here, for anyone who wants the alt text: xkcd.com/2943/
I scrape the bottom of the internet barrel through a special firefox container. It’s like growing memes on agar. Sometimes there’s a little contam.
Fair, but also, you could look up XKCD comics by their name or transcript and link to them directly when you come across them.
My goal is to spend less time online, if I did this for everything I would not be able to keep up with this. I do it for fun.
I was taught potenz in my school textbooks. potenz Hydrogen
It’s power of Hydrogen. We should’ve been using Watts to measure it this whole time.