Everyone keeps telling me to use a “neutral pH cleaner” for my natural stone. What exactly is a “pH neutral” cleaner and why is that important?
That’s a good question. Many people in the business who are taught to recommend pH neutral cleaners don’t even know. Here’s a short primer on pH and its importance in cleaning natural stone floors and dimensional stone: pH is the unit of measure used to express the degree of acidity of a substance. The centimeter is a unit measure of length. The gram is a unit measure of weight. So, pH is the unit measure we use to say how much acid is in a substance. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14. A pH of 0 identifies a very high acid activity level. Substances such as lemon juice and vinegar are acidic with pH values of 2 to 3. Nitric acid and hydrochloric acid are very strong with pH values of 0; stomach acid has a pH of 1. Addition of a strong acid, such as sulfuric acid ( H2SO4 ) to water makes the resulting solution very high in active acid concentration. This is called an acidic solution. On the other end of the scale are the alkaline substances, which range from 8 to 14. Common alkalis are sea
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