Control of the Hydrogen Ion
- 31 July 1952
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 247 (5) , 174-175
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195207312470506
Abstract
SOME unfortunate awkwardness of terminology has been associated with the heritage of information and ideas in the field of physiologic neutrality regulation. One relatively simple misconception seems to lie behind most of the trouble: when a weak acid HA dissociates, this has been interpreted erroneously as a combining of A- with a cation B+, rather than the breaking of the combination between H+ and A-. Almost everyone is familiar with the difference in the relations that sodium and hydrogen bear to the rest of the molecule in simple structures like NaHCO3 and H2CO3; . . .Keywords
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