Question

For digestion of food, hydrochloric acid is secreted into  stomach at a pH value of

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Answer 1

For digestion of food, hydrochloric acid is secreted into the stomach at a pH value of 2

Explanation:

Hydrochloric acid is naturally found in the gastric juices of the stomach. The gastric juices, together referred to as gastric acid, contain mostly potassium chloride, or KCl, and sodium chloride, or NaCl. As hydrochloric acid is such a strongly corrosive chemical, it only makes up around 5 percent of the composition of gastric acid. This gives gastric acid a  very low pH range, usually between 1 to 2.