Show hands! How many of you´ve seen this pretty Warner contest before. What if I
told you is a lot more complicated than what it seems. Find out what, what about
alkaline water on this episode of H2 minutes.
Welcome to our first episode of our misconception series. There are so many
misconceptions about alkaline water that it's hard to know which way is up.
Instead of breaking down the misconception, I'm gonna go through the
facts, so that you can use those facts to decide between fact or fiction.
I´ll even slide in some examples of the myths along the way. Alkaline water is water
with a high pH, but what is pH? pH is a logarithmic function measuring the
potential of hydrogen ions in a solution. Let's bring back my friend "h+" that we
learned about, in the "what is hydrogen" episode. Now the pH scale goes from 1 to
14. Now 7 is neutral, anything that's below 7 is acidic, anything that is above
7 is alkaline, but you knew that didn't. So because pH is the potential of
hydrogen ions, the more hydrogen ions in a solution the more acidic it will be
the less hydrogen ions in a solution the more alkaline it will be. For example, if
had a glass of acidic water, orange juice, lemon juice, etc... there would be a higher
concentration of hydrogen ions. If I have a glass of alkaline water or bleach,
ammonia, etc... then there will be a lower concentration of hydrogen ions. So does
this mean there are free hydrogen ions floating around in the glass ehh... no. Strictly
speaking of acidic water the extra hydrogen ions are in the form of
"hydronium" h3o +. A lack of hydrogen ions, in alkaline water, results in a
higher concentration of "hydroxide" oh -. This is what those pH drops are
measuring in the pretty water color devils. Confusing? Stay tuned because in
our next episode we'll break down key terms that get confused in regard to
alkaline water. If you like what you see please subscribe and like us on Facebook
so that's your dose of H2 in 2 minutes.
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