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    • October 25, 2008 at 8:32 pm #10328
      samar
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      The pH of fresh saliva is 8 and immediately it loses carbondioxide and pH becomes 6…

      My question is that cabon dioxide is an acid so when the carbondioxide is lost how pH becomes 6?

    • October 25, 2008 at 11:08 pm #86721
      mith
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      it’s a pH buffer meaning there’s other stuff in saliva

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