🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

塩基度

Pronunciation / Transliteration: enkido

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Basicity/ˈbeɪ.sɪ.tə.ti/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その水溶液の塩基度を実験室で測定した。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being a base; the degree of basic properties in a chemical substance.

    "The basicity of the solution was measured using a pH meter."
  2. 2

    The number of hydrogen ions that can be replaced by a base in an acid, or the number of hydroxyl groups in a base.

    "Sulfuric acid has a basicity of two because it can yield two hydrogen ions per molecule."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the chemical term 'base' (from French 'base', from Latin 'basis', from Greek 'basis' meaning pedestal or foundation) combined with the suffix '-ity'. It emerged in the 19th century within modern chemical nomenclature to describe the quantitative property of being a base.

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