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Originally Posted by Sc0rian
After some google work, i found this statement "The term pH comes from Pourvoir Hydrogene, which is French for "power of hydrogen".".
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Sorry to dig up this thread, but I'd just thought that I should point out that the statement above is untrue. The term pH was invented by a danish chemist at Carlsberg laboratories, Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen, and stands for "potens-eksponent af hydrogenion", and is measured as the negative exponent of the concentration of H3O+ ions in a solution. A concentration of 10^-3M for example will yeild a pH of 3.