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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I didnt say it would make a significant or even measurable difference. But it will technically drop your overall pH. If I drop any mass basic material in any volume of acidic material with which it can react, there will be some net change in acidity, even if negligible.

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eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ahh I see you have forgotten pH buffering solutions.

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- kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was more of a physics nerd. Can’t say I’ve heard of such a thing.
  
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  - eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Weak acids/bases tend to not fully convert their potential free ions, stabilizing at particular pHs for relatively large ranges of concentration.
    
    You can use that as a basis for solutions that aren’t super-basic but will preserve their pH in response to drips of acid.
    
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    kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hmm TIL
    
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  - chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But please…go on.
    
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angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The body maintains homeostasis. It cannot afford to change pH. It is capable to buffer pH by neat biochemical mechanisms.

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- kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.
  
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  - angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Yep, we agree. I was just pointing out the overall pH doen not change, there are ways to avoid that. From the the previous comment it kimd of seemed as though if you put something acidic in, the overall acidity must increase, which is not the case, so I wanted to make sure random readers don’t get the wrong idea.
    
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