How well do you remember the pH scale from chemistry class? Today’s Google Doodle presents a small interactive to jog your memory, and more importantly, celebrate Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen, the ...

The pH scale measures the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, ranging from 0 to 14, with values below 7 representing acidity, above 7 representing alkalinity, and 7 representing neutrality.

There’s a time for tongue-puckering lambics and Berliner Weisses, but most beer drinkers want something a little more balanced for day-to-day sipping. Thanks to the pH scale that Tuesday’s Google ...

Google today honours Danish biochemist Soren Peder Lauritz Sorensen for his revolutionary work in introducing to the scientific community, the concept of the pH scale. The pH scale is a concept that ...

The Danish chemist was the head of Carlsberg Laboratory at the time of the scale's creation, and died in 1939 at 71 years old. Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV ...

Google celebrated the life of Søren Peder Lauritz (S.P.L.) Sørensen on Tuesday with an interactive homepage doodle that pays tribute to the Danish chemist. While Sørensen was working as the chemical ...

Beer wasn’t always so consistant. Even the same producer’s brews could be wildly different in quality (Getty/iStock) Do you remember any chemistry from your schooldays? Dipping litmus paper into a ...

Defining “basic” is anything but. While basicness is commonly understood as a binary, close scrutiny—in the form of a weekend on Long Island—has reminded me that this is far from the case. Like ...

Google on Tuesday honoured 20th-century Danish scientist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen with a doodle. Sørensen is known for creating the pH scale, which is used to measure how acidic or alkaline a ...

Acid/base indicators are described and used to identify substances as acids or bases. Indicators and the pH Scale: Acid/base indicators are described and used to identify substances as acids or bases.

The 1970’s was the decade that illuminated the threat of acid rain to the citizens of the US. It had been known to exist several years before, but the sources of the problem did their best to suppress ...