HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrogen ion concentration mean? 

• HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION (noun)
  The noun HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION has 1 sense:

1. the number of moles of hydrogen ions per cubic decimeter

  Familiarity information: HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION (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))

 Context examples 

An abnormally high hydrogen ion concentration (umbilical arterial blood pH less than 7 or a base deficit of greater than or equal to 12 mmol/L) in fetal blood or tissue.

(Fetal Acidosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A process in which the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution is decreased, resulting in an increase in alkalinity.

(Alkalinization, NCI Thesaurus)