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I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This one is easy. As we know from words like "photon" and "triumph", "pH" is actually pronounced "f".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I wanted to make that joke 😟