Thursday, 6 September 2012

Acids in Human stomach can melt a razor blade


What is the hardest thing or food you have ever chewed? Can you chew a nail or a razor blade? Either you can do it or not, your stomach has the ability to digest a nail and/or razor blade. Yes I am talking about the human stomach. It is a fact that the strong acids in Human stomach can help in digestion of these hard metals too.
human stomach
Image credit: Flickr aJ GAZMEN ツ GucciBeaR
How it works:
Our stomach has very important role in the body, it helps us to digest our food. It consists of a strong and powerful fluid i.e: gastric acid. It is produced by the cells lining of the stomach when needed. In terms of chemistry, Gastric acid is also known as Hydrochloric acid (HCl).
Hope this information is interesting and fruitful for you, but please don’t try this at home because your family needs you and so do we :)

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