Comment on Octopus

• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It lives in water with salt. The average ocean pH value is 8.1. It’s a brain coated with a thin bit of goo.

  My stomach is about 1.5 pH.

  You could easily go through a waterslide, but if I change the water to be hydrochloric acid, you’re not gonna come out as fresh as you went in. And most skin on the face and body has a pH of between 4.7 and 5.75.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In addition, pH is a logarithmic scale, a pH of 3 is 10x more acidic than pH 4

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Holy crap, I never knew that!

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    • Banik2008@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Genuine question: what is the point of logarithmic scales? Why can’t we have a linear scale of 3 to 30 instead of 3 to 4? A linear scale works perfectly fine in most cases (for example the Scoville scale which goes from something like 3 for a green pepper to 20 million for a reaper), so why can’t pH do the same?

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      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, sure, but would you rather write that a substanc has a pH value of 11, or the absolute value, which is the hydrogen ion molar concentration, which would be 0.00000000001?

        www.fondriest.com/…/ph/

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay, but mine was funnier.

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