If your stomach acid so acidic that it can melt almost anything, why do other foreign organisms and objects still pass through like nothing happen? Why do tapeworms continue to survive and other bacteria?
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If stomach acid was as strong as you seem to think, the stomach lining would not hold, and throwing up once would melt your throat and mouth, killing you fairly painfully and quickly… It’s a concentration issue, not a matter of acid type, though. Hydrochloric acid, the primary component of stomach acid, is quite potent in pure form, but it’s pretty diluted. Heck, the same acid is used as a food additive, in very low concentrations. In the words of Paracelsus, the poison is in the dose.
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