Acids only become dangerous once you get lower than two on the pH scale, which is about the acidity of lemon juice, but ammonia is poisonous and it’s only 11, four steps away from neutral.
If you look at diagrams like [this](https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/860_SS_pH.png), it feels like acids become a problem a lot more “abruptly” than bases do. Is there a reason for this?
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Your body uses acid to digest food, so it has a pretty high tolerance for acidic things when you eat it. You’ll notice that most of the stuff on that chart you put up is food on the acid side. You’ve got a lot of systems in your body for dealing with acids (Especially ones you eat). So it just seems like they aren’t as strong from that chart.
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