Re:In Earth's hottest place, life has been found in strong acid
by tim333 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:32AM
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The definition of pH is pretty much a measure of the proton concentration of things dissolved in water. You can look at similar measures in non aqueous solution but then it doesn't fit the definition properly.
Re:In Earth's hottest place, life has been found in strong acid
by tomsmeding on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:31AM
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I'd say you have moles per unit volume of H3O+ ions. These form as the combination of H+ ions (readily present in copious amounts of acid) and crucially, H2O molecules.
Could you elaborate? Wikipedia doesn't seem to suggest water is necessary (it talks about moles per unit volume) but I may be misunderstanding something.