How can stomach acid be strong enough to dissolve thin razor blades, but stuff like corn and tomato skin can pass through seemingly completely untouched?

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How can stomach acid be strong enough to dissolve thin razor blades, but stuff like corn and tomato skin can pass through seemingly completely untouched?

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Because acids react very strongly with most metals but not so much with other elements such as carbon and silicon and their related compounds.

Hence you can store really strong acids in a glass jar but even the weakest acid can dissolve through a chalk stone it’s the chemistry of the components involved.

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