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What do bicarbonates do in the GI tract?
Neutralize acids.
What are bicarbonates found in?
Bicarbonates can be found in all body fluid and all of the organs in a body. They are extremely important because they balance acids and bases withing the body.
How can you use carbonic acid in a sentence?
The salts of carbonic acids are called bicarbonates (or hydrogen carbonates) and carbonates.
What do Batteries do to the environment?
The acids leak into the ground and contaminate it. As well they do not decompose.
Is it true when acids react with carbonates a gas called carbon dioxide is given off?
Yes. Even Bicarbonates also give out Carbon dioxide.
Do antacid tablets contain a base that neutralizes stomach acid?
Yes. They contain weak bases (generally carbonates, bicarbonates, hydroxides) that will neutralize stomach acids.
What decompose fatty acids and detoxify alcohol free radicals and other drugs?
Peroxisomes
Breaks down old warn out parts of cells?
Lysosomes contain acids that decompose parts of the cell.
What is the benefits with using acids in food product?
Acids are added in foods for taste and as preservatives.
What is the equation for the reaction of barium bicarbonate and results as barium carbonate CO2 H2O?
Metal bicarbonates decompose to yield metal carbonates, CO2 and H2O: Ba(HCO3)2(s) ---> BaCO3(s) + CO2(g) + H2O(g)
Why should acids stored away from the heat of the sun?
Some acids such as nitric(V) acid, may decompose by absorbing energy and reduce the acidic strength, when they are exposed to heat of the sun.
Are bicarbonates organic and inorganic and why?
bicarbonates are generally inorganic because there is no carbon-hydrogen bond in them (which is one of the criteria for a molecule to be organic)
