If stomach acid is so strong, why are stomach so sensitive to food?

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If it can supposedly break down metal, why can’t it properly digest food it has sensitivities to?

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It’s not particularly strong, pH is about 1.5. That would be called “dilute HCl” in the lab. Chemists use the term “strong acid” to denote one that fully dissociates into ions in solution. You can have a weak (dilute) solution of a strong acid. And the majority of food is broken down in the intestines by enzymes, not in the stomach by acid.

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