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Chyme
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Define the term chyme?
Chyme is a soupy blend of bolus and digestive juices. The bolus is chewed up food mixed with saliva after it has been swallowed and has traveled down the esophagus into the stomach. After the bolus enters the stomach, the stomach adds digestive juices, a combination of the hormone gastrin, and enzymes such as intrinsic factor, hydrochloric acid, and pepsinogen. Then it becomes chyme. It continues to be chyme until it enters the cecum, when it turns into feces in the colon.
What organ adds saliva and mixes up food?
salavary glands
What churns food and adds gastric juices and acids?
stomach walls
How the stomach works in the digestive system?
The stomach mechanically/chemically breaks down food. It adds acid and mixes it into the food.
How does limestone help farmers?
It adds calcium to the soil and helps raise the pH for more acidic soils.
Does adding water effect the pH of an acidic solution?
yes it adds alkaline- well it depends what pH water you get, if its more acidic it'll make the pH change but so will alkaline.
What in milk products neutralizes acids?
Actually, milk is slightly acidic (e.g. lactic acid), in fact milk adds to acidity slightly.
How does food get to your stomatch?
Before food can be used by the body, it has to go through parts of the digestive system. Once food enters your mouth, saliva helps it turn into bolus. The bolus moves to the pharynx and down the esophagus. Now it has reached the stomach. The stomach then adds mucus and digestive acids to the food, and then squeezes and mixes it for 4-6 hours. Then, the food goes through the small intestine. If it still isn't digested, it moves on to the large intestine, which takes it through the cecum and rectum.
What is the acid in acid rain?
These are usually accumulated acidic chemicals from industries that are transformed to vapor. When it rains, these chemicals adds with the raindrops. Depending on concentration of the chemicals, the rain becomes acidic. Sometime to the point of actually dissolving materials including human skins.
Should water be basic or acidic?
Acidic water removes minerals from your body, thus making you more prone to disease. Alkaline water adds minerals, just make sure it contains the good minerals, not poisons like mercury, aluminum or floride!
Does the gastric juice soften and lubricate the food?
Gastric juices begins to break foods apart, which, by definition, softens the food into a mash-like substance. It adds lubrication to what the mouth/saliva provided.
Why does your stomach growls when your hungry?
Because your stomach constantly churns as it adds digestive juices to food. When empty, the air transmits sound waves more easily than when the stomach is full of food.
