How are acids good for you?

Answer 1

Acid is either weak or strong. Though the acids have corrosive effect they still have many uses as follows: * Cleaning of sufraces * Breaking of pipes etc. * It is used for sterilization of glasswares * Few acids like fatty acids and amino acids that are components of the body in the form of lipids and proteins respectively. * Reaction of acid with a base leads to the formation of new useful product eg. soap * Help in buffering eg. acetic acid, carbonic acid

Answer 2

The high pH of a human's stomach provides an environment for certain enzymes to form. Pepsinogen is released by chief cells into the lumen of the stomach, but are not in an active form. The hydrochloric acid works to clip off part of the molecule exposing its active region. There is also a positive feedback loop working also, in which active pepsin activates more from pepsinogen.

The acid will also denature proteins for digestion. By unfolding the proteins, more surface area is exposed and the reactions speed up. The correlation between surface area and reaction time is essential to the digestive system as well as other aspects of Biology.

Answer 3

acid breaks down food and helps digest hard things. Your saliva is a very mild type of acid.

Answer 4

they can play a role cause say like you drink some pop and it had acid in it the different basses would mase up your diet and stuff like that

Answer 5

Acid-base balance can be defined as homeostasis of the body fluids at a normal arterial blood pH ranging between 7.37 and 7.43.

Answer 6

You make them. Your stomach produces hydrochloric acid. There is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in every cell of your body except red blood cells. All of this was produced by the body itself.