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By approximate calculation if you don't have a pH-electrode measuring device at hand.

At reasonable concentrations of acids, not too weak, there is an elegant short calculus formula saying pH is approximated by:

pH = 0.5*pKa - 0.5*log(Ca)

[where Ca is the molar weak acid concentration]

So pH = 0.5*4.83 - 0.5*log(0.25) = 2.415 - 0.5*(-0.60) = 2.7 (Answer should always be rounded to 1st decimal).

Note: It is a reasonable approximation when pKa + log(Ca) > 1.4 and pHcalc< 6.5 (these premisses are both true: 2.4 - 0.3 > 1.4 and 2.7 << 6.5 )

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