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Some believe that Jeff Mangum named the band Neutral Milk Hotel as a reference to the pH scale (chemistry). This scale is a unit of measure of the acidity or basicity of substances in their liquid form. The pH scale runs on a spectrum with numerical values ranging from 1 - 14. A numerical value of (1) denotes the highest level of acidity and (14) denotes the highest level of basicity. The middle value, (7), denotes a neutral substance. Neutral substances fall within the middle ground of acidity versus basicity and are therefore non-toxic to carbon-based life forms. Milk has a pH value in the mid to high (6)s, thus making it a relatively neutral substance.

Reference: Wikipedia entry for pH