What happens to the pH of a basic solution as water is added to it?
Any acidic solution, when a base chemical is added to it, will achieve a higher PH balance than it had before. For instance, adding pure water to battery acid will bring up its PH level. The more pure water that’s added, the higher the PH rating of an acidic substance will become, and the less acidic the solution will be. Simply by adding pure water, though, an acidic compound can only reach a certain PH. Because the acid is still present, it can never reach 7 or above on the PH scale, because the pure water cannot dilute the acid further than 6. To make an acidic compound reach a PH higher than 6, a chemical with a higher PH than pure water would need to be added.
