Lab Report Antacid

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Antacids are a form of medication that many people take to help with an imbalance of the pH of their stomach acid because it neutralizes the gastric acid present (Antacids | Drugs.com). Although the is not just one brand of antacid that is available to people, and most people want to take the best antacid that will help with their acid imbalance. In our lab, we were given the question of which antacid out of the antacids provided to us was the “best” at neutralizing stomach acid. To answer that question me must first establish what makes an antacid the best, we decided that the strongest base would be the best at neutralizing a strong acid. We realized that we would be neutralizing a strong acid because the main acid in the stomach is

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