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6. What effect does an increase in blood hydrogen ion levels have on the pH of the blood?

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Answer: the two parameters change inversely; as hydrogen ion concentration increases, pH falls. due to the logarithmic relationship, a large change in hydrogen ion concentration is actually a small change in pH. For example, doubling the hydrogen ion concentration causes pH to fall by just 0.3.

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