Where do the following belong on the pH scale?*

1) Garden Lime
2) Aspirin
3) Household Ammonia

*All aqueous solutions

1 Answer
Jul 31, 2018

Well agricultural lime is on the higher end of the #pH# scale...

Explanation:

And ammonia is also moderately high, on account of the equilibrium..

#NH_3 + H_2O rightleftharpoons NH_4^+ + HO^-#

And that leaves aspirin, acetyl salicylic acid. This is probably on the lower end, i.e.below#7#.