Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

henderson-hasselbalch equation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: hen-der-son--has-sel-balch e-qua-tion
IPA

51

Scrabble Score

28

Letters

9

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An equation describing the derivation of pH as a measure of acidity (using pKa, the negative log of the acid dissociation constant) in biological and chemical systems.

Etymology

Named after Lawrence Joseph Henderson, who devised a related equation in 1908, and Karl Albert Hasselbalch, who re-expressed it in logarithmic terms.

Inflected Forms

Henderson-Hasselbalch equations (plural)

Questions

What does henderson-hasselbalch equation mean?: An equation describing the derivation of pH as a measure of acidity (using pKa, the negative log of the acid dissociation constant) in biological and chemical systems.
Where does henderson-hasselbalch equation come from?: Named after Lawrence Joseph Henderson, who devised a related equation in 1908, and Karl Albert Hasselbalch, who re-expressed it in logarithmic terms.

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