What are the pHs of salt and sugar?

Question

Bitter things are basic, sour things are acidic, so what are the pHs of salt and sugar? Do they have pHs?

Answer 1

pH is a measure of how many hydrogen ions are dissolved in water. When you dissolve hydrochloric acid, for example, which has the chemical symbol HCl, the HCl breaks up into positive hydrogen ions (H+) and negative chlorine ions (Cl-). The amount of hydrogen ions dissolved in the water determines the pH. (It's actually opposite, though: The higher the number of H ions, the lower the pH.)

That means it doesn't make sense to talk about the pH of solid substances. Instead, pH only refers to the concentration of H+ ions in a solution. That means salts and sugars don't have pH's by themselves. But also, when you dissolve them in water, they don't let go of an H ion, so the pH of the liquid won't be affected.

Answer 2

Your statement about about acidity and taste is not correct, but that's not the question.

Table salt is NaCl.
Both table salt and sugar don't change the concentration of H+ in water (they can't generate H+ or OH-) and thus they don't affect the pH.
The pH will be the same as that of the water you used to dissolve them.

Answer 3

pH is the negative logarythm of the hydrogen ion concentration, table salt is chemical sodium chloride and sugar is either polysaccharide, disaccharide or monosacharride. Sodium chloride/ NaCl, contains no hydrogen molecule at all. Dissolved in water results to HCl + NaOH. Thus, as a solution, it has a pH and a pOH. HCl has pH 3 to 4, and NaOH has pOH 9 to 10, resulting to 7, which is neutral. Sodium chloride dissolved in water is an acid and as well as a base. To compute, we need the pKw, ion conc. of water, known to be pKw 14.

pKw = pH + pOH or pOH + pH

14pKw = 4HCL + 10 NaOH,
pH/HCL = 14/pKw - 10/pOH
pH/HCl = 4

or

14pKw = 4pH/HCL + 10 pOH/NaOH,
pOH = 14/pKw - 4pH/HCl
pOH/NAOH = 10

Sugar contains one or more alcohol or hydroxyl/ -OH group; thus, sugar has a pOH value and not pH. pOH value depends on how many -OH group has a sugar.

Answer 4

If u are asking for table salt (NaCl) then pH will be 7(that is neutral).For other salts it depends upon the composition of the salt.
For sugar it is also 7.

Answer 5

salt-7 sugar-7 coke- moderately cut back than 7, due to the fact that of thecarbon dioxide dissolving within the water, acidity stabilisers are normally further regardless that, so now not so much cut back natural ethanoic acid, the susceptible acid you uncover in vinegar, is approximately four-five malt vinegar is watered down so shall be approximately 6 if you are fortunate citric acid once more is round four as this can be a susceptible acid

Answer 6

they're about 7. not all sour things are acidic though. some are almost neutral, but in general you're scale works, but i wouldn't try it on an unknown substance