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strong acid- hydrochloric acid - used for digestion as a secretion of stomach
weak acid- citric acid - used for maintaining salts in body
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How does stomach acid breakdown food?
It uses very strong acid called stomach acid to break it down
What structure liquefies foods using acids and begins protein digestion?
The name of that structure is stomach. Your stomach starts to digest the food. So the food becomes more liquid. It uses very strong acid for this purpose. The acid is hydrochloric acid. It is wonderful to have such strong acid to be used in your body.
IS acid dengerous for stomach?
If not the acid we use in our stomach. Diluted hydrochloric acid is what the body uses to begin digestion, but some other strong acid that was more highly concentrated than HCl would do great damage to the stomach.
Ingredients to candy warheads?
Extreme sour warheads uses malic acid as a coating to give them their extreme sour flavor. They also put some malic acid in the center of the candy. The strong sour flavor lasts for about 20 seconds. The candy itself contains citric and ascorbic acid, which are also sour, though not as sour as malic acid.
How much acid does a diet Pepsi have?
Pepsi uses a large amount of carbonic acid and a small amount of phosphoric acid. This helps mask the strong taste of sugar.
How is hydroflouric acid uses in chemical cleaning?
how is hydroflouric acid uses in chemical cleaning/
What is hydrochloride acid?
Hydrochloric acid is hydrogen chloride gas dissolved in water. It is a strong, highly corrosive, poisonous acid that has millions of uses in thousands of fields, from etching metal to cleaning concrete to digesting food in your stomach to lowering the pH of swimming pool water. It is also known as muriatic acid.
Give 5 uses of definition given by copi?
to increasevocabulary to eliminate ambiguity to clarify meaning to explain theoretically to influence attitudes
How useful acid and base in your daily life?
Vitamin C is an acid, stomach acid digests food, baking soda is a base that makes fast breads soft, there are a myriad uses for both but maybe this will give you a start.
What are the domestic uses of acetic acid?
Acetic acid has a sour taste and strong smell and is the main component in vinegar. Although it is a weak acid, in it's concentrated form it is corrosive so be careful! It has numerous uses around the home. It can be used as a disinfectant and a laundry soap and is useful for removing limescale from kettles and taps. Acetic acid is also a potent treatment for Box Jellyfish stings and can prevent death or serious injury if applied immediately. Glacial acetic acid (concentrated acetic acid) is used for verruca and wart removal.
What you can mix in nitric acid?
Nitric acid is very corrosive and a very strong acid. You can mix in water but remember add acid to the water and not water to the acid. When mixed with concentrated sulfuric acid it forms an excellent nitrating mixture for organic compounds. When doing a chloride titration with Silver Nitrate, Nitric acid is used to acidify and help the titration. There are many other uses also which involve mixing chemicals with nitric acid.
What is the type of bacteria that uses heat and acid for energy?
acetic acid
