p is for pHunky

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• SharpieThunderflare@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why is there a random watermark on an xkcd? The original is here, for anyone who wants the alt text: xkcd.com/2943/

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I scrape the bottom of the internet barrel through a special firefox container.

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fair, but also, you could look up XKCD comics by their name or transcript and link to them directly when you come across them.

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• emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not probably?

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    • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ???

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m french, what does this say?

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    • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      on a!!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Søren Sørensen, who came up with the concept of pH, wasn’t clear on the mean of the letter “p”. It does involve powers of 10, which can also be measured with electrical potential, so the best guess 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.

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  • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We can all speak to the dead. The problem is that they can’t answer.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s why I was careful to say, “speak with dead,” implying a conversation.

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• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All those words have the same meaning.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And the same origin, it’s not a coincidence they all start with P

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  • Gutek8134@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s also pico-, prefix for 10^-12

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Protons. As in protons, How many. On a weird logarithmic scale with 7 in the middle, of course.

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh we’re going to pHight today, is that it?

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• pryre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Easy. Pico Henry. Not sure why chemists are so concerned with such a small amount of magnetism though…

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  penis

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Kek

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• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s power of Hydrogen. We should’ve been using Watts to measure it this whole time.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  PornHub

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• IsoSpandy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was taught potenz in my school textbooks. potenz Hydrogen

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Phat-ass hydrogen

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Potencial de hidrógeno

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• Puttaneska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Negative log of the concentration of…(Hydrogen ions, in pH).

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t get what the joke is

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nobody actually knows what the p means but we keep using it anyway.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doesn’t it mean “potential” ?

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