What is pH value of a substance?

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pH (potential of hydrogen) is a numeric scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution. It is approximately the negative of the base 10 logarithms of the molar concentration, measured in units of moles per liter, of hydrogen ions.
It helps to represent the nature of substances like Acid, base, and neutral.

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