Purpose of pH and pOH

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What is the point of having two methods (pH and pOH) to calculate a solution's acidity or basicity?

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It just depends on whether we want to view the acidity or basicity of a solution with respect to the concentration of H+ ions or OH- ions. So if you want to look at the concentration of OH-, pOH is more appropriate.

[Ethan Wang 1L]

It's mainly just because each takes measurements of different molecules (H+ and OH-, as stated above), since they ultimately are measuring the exact same thing (acidity and basicity), just on different scales.

[Lily Rivas 1H]

Look out for problems that give you pOH when needed to solve for pH or vice-versa. Like stated earlier, use what is appropriate for the given problem!

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The purpose of pH and pOH is to measure the [H+] and [OH-] in a solution.

[Fiona H 2E]

pH refers to the "potential of hydrogen." It can be used to determine whether a solution is acidic, basic, or neutral. pOH, on the other hand is a measure of hydroxide ion (OH-) concentration.

[Evan L 2B]

pH refers to the concentration of H3O+ ions and pOH refers to the concentration of OH- ions. We typically refer to pH just so that there is a standard, however, it is important to know/manipulate both because certain equations will require having the OH- concentration but you are only given the pH

[Isabelle Rieke-Wey 2G]

Hi!
pH measures the concentration of H+ ions in a solution, while pOH measures the concentration of OH- ions in a solution.