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Query:

Subject: If coke is so acidic, why do we drink it to settle our stomachs?

Date: Tue May 9 16:36:12 2000
Posted by Sharon Lamb
Grade level: teacher/prof School: St. Michael's College
City: Colchester State/Province: Vermont Country: USA
Area of science: Biochemistry
ID: 957904572.Bc
Message:

I was helping my son with his acid rain project and I saw on a chart that 
coke has a PH of 2.4.  I thought that it would be less acidic since when 
we have an "acid stomach" sometimes coke helps to settle it.  Thanks.


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