Ph
['pi'etʃ]
Definition
(noun.) (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic);.
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Examples
- This Ph?nician alliance sustained him, and was the essential element in the greatness of his son Solomon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am after Ph?be to shoot her, and the groom is gone another way. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To Ph?nicians after the falls of Tyre and Carthage, conversion to Judaism must have been particularly easy and attractive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From first to last it was a mere incident in the larger and greater history of Egypt, Syria, Assyria, and Ph?nicia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is possible that the great majority of African and Spanish Jews are really of Ph?nician origin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His death is described with great beauty in the dialogue of Plato called by the name of Ph?do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ph?nician shipping under Egyptian owners was making its way into the East Indies and perhaps even further into the Pacific. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They founded the town of Marseilles on the site of an earlier Ph?nician colony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its productions and features may be without example, as the ph?nomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is to the Ph?nician contingent and to Aramean accessions in Babylon that the financial and commercial tradition of the Jews is to be ascribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the ph?nonema which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was sitting at the foot of the bed, wishing Ph?be had not bitten me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Physical astronomy, physical geography, meteorology, ph ysics, chemistry, geology, botany, anatomy, physiology, embryology, and zo?logy were enriched by his teaching. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The first steamship to put to sea was also an American, the _Ph?nix_, which went from New York (Hoboken) to Philadelphia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The natural ph?nomena that take place every day before our eyes did not escape my examinations. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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