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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

BRB, looking up the pH of chlorine triflouride....

Edit: Turns out it reacts explosively with water (so it itself can't form the aqueous solution necessary for the concept of pH to be applicable) and decomposes into two different strong acids (hydrofluoric acid and hydrochloric acid). So yeah, not a candidate for our mystery base.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, this is the kind of substance that would promptly react to protons, what would be a base-like behavior if it also didn't promptly react to hydroxyl, what would be an acid-like behavior.

But given that it will consistently turn water into plasma, I guess it technically has a PH of 0.