Acids Bases and pH Scale. I. Acids *Acids are ionic compounds (a compound with a positive or negative charge) that break apart in water to form a hydrogen ion (H +). *The strength of an acid is based on the concentration of H + ions in the solution. The more H+ the stronger the acid.
This version is interesting because an egg containing a chicken might have been laid by a chicken or a non-chicken, which of course affects the answer. Thanks to modern genetic science, we can now be sure that the egg came first.
The question of orange (the fruit? the color?) may not be as profound as the chicken and egg debate, but we wanted to know: which came first, orange the fruit or orange the color? Both scenarios are plausible, but in the case of orange, the color was named after the fruit. Unlike the chicken, we can follow the etymological trail, and know with certainty that the fruit came first -- by 300 years no less. The first instance of the word in Anglo manuscript, pume orange, dates back to the 13th century (and it was adapted from old French pomme d'orenge ). And the first use of the word to describe the color is first noted in the 16th century. If it weren't for orange (the fruit) we would probably know the color as geolurÄad (yellow-red). That's just one more reason to appreciate the fruit.