What does hydrochloric acid digest in the digestive system?
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Hydrochloric acid has several functions during digestion.  Gastric acid has a pH of around 2.0, which is highly acidic.  Since proteins have a narrow pH threshhold, gastric acid denatures them and exposes peptide bonds for proteolysis.  \n\nThe real work of breaking the peptide bonds is done by pepsin though.  However, since pepsin targets proteins and there are many proteins in body that we don't want pepsin to break up, pepsin has to be produced and transported around in the form of it's inactive precursor, pepsinogen.  Once the pepsinogen encounters the HCl in the stomach, it is activated into pepsin and proteolysis can occur.  \n\nStomach acid is also useful in killing any bacteria that have entered the stomach through the esophagus and keeping the beneficial bacteria in the colon from migrating into the small intestine and causing problems.
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Well the food is broken down by stomach acid (HCl). I'm not a biologist, but I believe all food undergoes the same general reaction.
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It goes into the small intestines which absorbs it into the bloodstream
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Muriatic acid is just the old name for Hydrochloric acid.\n\nGood point about diluting Sciguy.  But pour the acid into the water, not the water into the acid, to prevent boiling.
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Oral Phentermine Hydrochloride (HCL) is sold for weight loss. It is in the Sympathomimetic family of appetite suppressants (used for the short-term management of exogenous obesity.) When used in conjunction with diet, exercise, and behavior therapy, Phentermine may help you to lose weight while you are learning new ways to eat and to exercise.\n\nThree forms of Phentermine are available:\n TABLETS \n CAPSULES \n RESIN CAPSULES \n\nPhentermine works by stimulating the hypothalamus gland and affecting certain neurotransmitters to decrease appetite. The hypothalamus is the region of the brain that controls the autonomic nervous system, regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc.
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Yes. An electrolyte is defined as a species that dissolves in water and produces electrically conducive ions. Stomach acid is concentrated hydrochloric acid. Chloride ions are electrically conductive, so stomach acid is an electrolyte.\n\n>>No, it is not.\nElectrolytes are SALTS. Salts have a perfectly neutral pH. Acid.....well it's acid.<<\n\nMost electrolytes are salts. And no, salts don't have a perfectly neutral pH. Nothing has a perfectly neutral pH, and some salts are most definitely acidic or basic.
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Think of whales. They have that siv-like stuff that strains krill and plankton stuff out of the water, to be swallowed and digested later.\n\nOk, now for a smarter explination: \n\nWhen humans eat, there's a lot more methods and reasons behind digestion than simply mechanical breakdown.\nFood starts in the mouth, where salivary amylaze, an enyzme, begins to break down starch. The mechanical process increases the surface area of the food, allowing a more rapid breakdown. Peristalsis moves food along the digestive track, partially digesting and absorbing along the way. In the stomach, chemicals from the gallbladder and pancreas are secreted to further breakdown food (with stomach fluid, "acid chyme"), and specifically protein (by enzyme "pepsin," thus the antacid medicine). This is known as "chemical digestion." Stomach muscles also aid in mixing digestive enzymes; this is what happens when your stomach lurches, bubbles (but gas can cause this also), "talks," or churns. Next, as food travels to the small and then large intestine, fat in food is absorbed in the small and water in the large.\n\nSpecies vary in the ammount of breakdown needed for their body to absorb nutrients. This describes the function of most. On the whole, animals besides humans use teeth to intimidate predators and capture prey. Some snakes swallow eggs whole, and would use teeth only to defend against the mother bird. The venus fly-trap captures flies and then disables them without teeth. Spiders don't have teeth, persay, but poisonous fangs which disable their prey--you may recall that they merely "suck" the liquids out of their food. \nAnimals equipped with other mechanisms besides teeth to capture prey have no need for them to digest.
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It absorbs nutrients from your digested food.
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Your digestive system.
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Hydrochloric acid or gastric acid is very corrosive with a pH of about 2-3.  It would easily wear away the walls of the stomach if the it weren't protected by layers of thick mucous.  \n\nA peptic ulcer is formed when the mucous wears away and the stomach wall is exposed to gastric acid.   These ulcers can be quite painful and mimic a heart attack.  Acid reflux or heartburn is also a result of gastric acid corroding the esophagus, which is not protected with such a layer of mucous.
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Hydrochloric acid produces H plus and Cl - :2 ions per molecule\n\nWater self ionizes to produce H plus and OH minus : 2 ions\n\nCarbonic acid H2C03 can produce 2 H plus and one C03 two minus ions: 3 ions\n\nSodium hydroxide dissociates to give Na plus and OH minus: 2 ions\n\nCarbonic acid potentially forms the greatest number of ions per molecule\n\n\nCarbonic acid is formed of the greatest number of ions per molecule?
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Lipase.\n\n\nlipase (lī'pās) , any enzyme capable of degrading lipid molecules. The bulk of dietary lipids are a class called triacylglycerols and are attacked by lipases to yield simple fatty acids and glycerol, molecules which can permeate the membranes of the stomach and small intestine for use by the body. Gastric lipase, secreted by the stomach lining, has a pH value for optimal activity around neutrality and would appear, therefore, to be essentially inactive in the strongly acid environment of the stomach. It is suggested that this enzyme is more important for infant digestion since the gastric pH in infancy is much less acid than later in life. Most lipid digestion in the adult occurs in the upper loop of the small intestine and is accomplished by a lipase secreted by the pancreas. Phospholipases are the enzymes that degrade phospholipids.
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1.Hydrolyzes proteins via pepsin (a protease). \n2.Kills pathogens by dousing them with hydrochloric acid. 3.Stores food during digestion. \n4.Mechanically digests foods a little bit by churning the acid chyme.
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are you asking what digests food? the protien would be pepsin and HCL in the stomach creating pepsinogen, the fries would be amalayse from the pancrease and in slavatory glands, and the high fructose corn syrup would go thru a process called metabolic shunting after absorbtion to be converted directly into glucagon, then metabolised into a cell with insulin... that what you were looking for?
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In humans, gastrin is a hormone that stimulates secretion of gastric acid by the stomach. It is released by G cells in the stomach and duodenum.\n\nThe presence of gastrin stimulates parietal cells of the stomach to secrete hydrochloric acid\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrin
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Just go to yahoo and type:\nlipids lumen intestine\n\nhttp://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smallgut/absorb_lipids.html\n\n"recently, a specific transport protein has been identified that ferries cholesterol from the intestinal lumen into the enterocyte. From there, cholesterol is incorporated into chylomicrons and shuttled into blood by the mechanisms described above."
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Gee Hydrochloric Acid and Gum.  Hydrochloric acid very easily dissolvs gum if you dont believe me get some hydrochloric acid and put the gum in it and watch it dissolve.  Also even if it wasnt digested you would have to swallow an awfull lot of gum to block your intestines.  What can constipate you is cooked chicken bones, large coins, legos, corn cob, wood chips, and plastic baggies.