Acidity

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The acidity (from Latin acidus "sour") or acidity denotes in chemistry :

  1. in the case of Brønsted acids to give the measure of the ability of a chemical compound, protons, so their behavior with acid expressed by the acidity constant and the pK s value
  2. in the case of Lewis acids, the measure of the ability of a chemical compound to bind Lewis bases; see Lewis acid-base concept
  3. the acidity (proton concentration) of a solution; see pH value

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Wiktionary: acidity  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on acidity . In: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the “Gold Book”) . doi : 10.1351 / goldbook.A00079 .