Eli5: Just how powerful is stomachs acid?

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When we eat food how powerful is the acid in our stomach, is it powerful enough to kill a life? For example, if someone ate goldfish or shrimp alive. How does it work, do the acid kill them immediately or they die slowly.

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I havent read any comment yet but as funny note that most people dont know: you stomach is full of acid most of the time, actually when you haven’t eaten is the time you have more acid in the stomach because your body wants to be ready for your “next meal” and that why when you go long hours without eating you can get “heartburn”, the acid our body produces is hydrochloric acid so no it would not kill a fish the way you think it would die, it would die because of lack of oxygen not because it got burned by hcl.

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