{"id":586,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:29:14","slug":"the-ph-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"The pH Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Since hydrogen ions are positively charged, they alter the charge environment of the molecules they are bonded to. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">As a result, they change their shape. This is particularly important for <a href=\"?p=615\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">proteins<\/span><\/a>, because their shape is related to their function. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The concentration of hydrogen ions is often expressed in terms of <a href=\"?p=261\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">the pH<\/span><\/a> scale:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Low pH equates to high hydrogen ion concentration<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">High pH corresponds to low hydrogen ion concentration<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A substance with a high concentration of hydrogen ions and thus low pH is called an acid<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A substance with a low concentration of hydrogen ions and thus high pH is called a base (or alkaline)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Substances that enable organisms to regulate their pH in the presence of an acid or base are called buffers.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=587\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since hydrogen ions are positively charged, they alter the charge environment of the molecules they are bonded to. As a result, they change their shape. This is particularly important for proteins, because their shape is related to their function. The concentration of hydrogen ions is often expressed in terms of the pH scale: Low pH&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6017,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/6017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}