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What is the pH of alcohol?

Updated: 9/11/2023
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The pH of pure ethanol and all other alcohols is 7, because the pH (power of Hydrogen) number refers to the number of OH- or H+ ions in a solution*, neither of which are present in any alcohols. Pure alcohols therefore, are neither acids nor are they bases.

Most alcohol solutions are (very) weakly acidic.

*Some Acids and Bases are composed without these two ions, but for the purposes of this question, this definition is usable, even though not technically correct.

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