Abstract
Logarthaic scales are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, and justly so inasmuch as they afford a ready means of exhibiting the variation of a property over a very wide range, without necessitating the use of numbers intolerably large or small. The H scale-H being the symbol for the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration-may seem at first a little topsy turvy, inasmuch as the variable studied-the hydrogen ion concentration-goes up as the number representing it goes down, but custom, which ‘does often reason over-rule’, soon makes its use mechanical, and there is no doubt of its ultimate convenience.
Hydrogen Ion Concentration and its Practical Application.
By Frank L. LaMotte William R. Kenny Allen B. Reed. Pp. vii + 262. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1932.) 20s.
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F., A. Hydrogen Ion Concentration and its Practical Application. Nature 132, 587 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132587a0
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