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пятница, 16 апреля 2010 г.

What is the acid in your stomach

Its hydrochloric acid (H Cl) with the pH value of 1.

  1. Stomach acid is hydrochloric acid at a pH of 1, which means that it is at a concentration of 0.1 moles/liter.
  2. When something is swallowed, it reaches the stomach within seconds.
  3. Stomach acid does not dissolve enteric coatings. That's the whole point of an enteric coating; it doesn't break down until the small intestine. In fact, there's a really interesting picture in a recent New England Journal of Medicine of an enteric-coated aspirin lodged in a stomach ulcer. The coating was perfectly intact, so that you could still read the printing on it.