Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

mise a pH

English translation:

neutralization

Added to glossary by Diana Chemparathy
Feb 21, 2009 01:20
15 yrs ago
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French term

mise a pH

French to English Medical Other
I have a heading in a pharmaceutical document: "Calibrage du pH-metre portable et mise a pH". Under this heading it's just one table with the pH reading after calibration. Could "mise a pH" be rendered as "pH measurement"? thank you.
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Mar 3, 2009 20:00: Diana Chemparathy changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/108667">Diana Chemparathy's</a> old entry - "mise a pH"" to ""neutralization""

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neutralization

See: http://csidoc.insa-lyon.fr/these/1999/laforest/annexes.pdf

Do a search for "mise à pH". You will find:

... lors de l'étape de neutralisation (mise à pH).

In other words, the adjustment of the pH to 7.0

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-02-21 03:32:33 GMT)
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I was a Chemist by profession
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : makes sense to rely on your answer. you were a chemist and you actually provide refs and not just an opinon/hopeful guess
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agree liz askew : Nice to hear from a chemist.
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neutral kashew : but it's implication only understood by other chemists. Why not set pH at 7?
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agree SJLD : in a pharmaceutical document I should think it's OK to use terms "only understood by other chemists" ;-)
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set to pH

could be it (especially if followed by a value), but not quite sure for lack of context.
(I do understand you don't have more.)
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agree kashew
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pH converted

I would say
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pH adjustment

It sounds as if they want to adjust the pH to a given value. To do that, first they calibrate the pHmeter, then they use it to measure the pH while thy adjust it to the target value.
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pH setting

Normally, after the calibration of pHmeter, pH is set to a standard pH.
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