Notes. 1  For a quick gluten-free gravy, while the roast is cooking, heat 2 Tbsp of butter/fat in a sauce pan. 2  If you are making the roast ahead of time, it is a great idea to use the broth left in the roasting pan to make this gravy as directed above. 3  Stretch this meal by braising extra root veggies on the side.
The remaining part of the original water molecule is called a hydroxide ion (negative charge because it kept an extra electron, shorthand = OH-). Although present at very low levels in solution, H+ and OH- ions can have enormous effects on the properties of a solution, especially when they are not in balance. In pure water, every hydroxide ion that forms creates a hydrogen ion, so there are equal numbers of anions and cations.
A solution is acidic if the H+ are in excess. A solution is basic, if the OH- ions are in excess. Definition of pH, pOH, and pKw: The concentrations of hydrogen ions and indirectly hydroxide ions are given by a pH number. pH is defined as the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration.