Acid rain is a hazardous meteorological phenomenon brought about when certain pollutants mix with precipitation. It was a major issue in the 1970s, but thanks to activism and governmental regulation, its harm has been mitigated. pH is defined as the negative log base 10 of the concentration of hydrogen in water. If acid rain has a pH of 4(according to the EPA), what is the concentration of hydrogen in an acid rain sample?

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22. Acid rain is a hazardous meteorological phenomenon brought about when certain pollutants mix with precipitation. It was a major issue in the 1970s, but thanks to activism and governmental regulation, its harm has been mitigated. pH is defined as the negative log base 10 of the concentration of hydrogen in water. If acid rain has a pH of 4(according to the EPA), what is the concentration of hydrogen in an acid rain sample?

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