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A Person wrote:

I think bases taste bitter, and acids taste sour.

Note: you probably shouldn't go around tasting random acids and bases.

i was speculating in having some shots of Nitric acid down at the petrol station Tongue

, or a Sylphyr acid shake

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aginor wrote:

my question goes as follows

acid / base
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

^ that is the PH system, human sweat is PH 5,5, (or something), Sylphier acid and Nitric acid is round PH 3, and Carbon acid is even lower,

what i am aiming for is, i was thinking of humans different taste pallets, or types, we have sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami.

(I narrow it down) i was thinking sour = acidious = things we eat or consume that is acidius/sour, like lemon (have acids), orange (have acids), soda (have acids), wine, sour milk etc,

I was basicaly thinking, our sweat is 5,5 which means our human boddy is more used to acid then to base, is humans more tollorant to acid then to base, since our system is full of acid, like stumack acid, enzymes, pancreatic juice (if that is an acid),

1 first i was thinking is our resistant to base weaker becouse human body is more acid, used to sourness, becouse it is more of it in human biological make-up

2. i our sweat was 10,10 in PH rather then 5,5, and our system been consisting of base in stead of acids, would we be more resistance to weaker bases then 10, as i suspect stronger acids then stumack acids would kill you, and higher then 5 we are more resistant to, (or does neither of these things work like that)

3 what does base taste like, have it flavour and is it an oppesite falvour of base (sour), do base tast bitter or is it tasteless (or does it not really work like that)

Well I wouldn't say our bodies are more attracted or more tolerant to either acids or bases. Drinking something with a pH of 2 or a pH of 12 is still going to be highly dangerous either way. While our sweat is ~5.5, our blood is slightly basic at around 7.45. We're susceptible to both extremes either way. Obviously we have a buffer zone of +/- 3 or 4 pH from neutral, or we'd be seriously harmed when consuming soda, lemon juice, etc. The reason we have so many strong acids in our body like stomach acids and such is because acids are wonderful dehydrants and dissolvers so that stuff that goes into our stomach can be digested. If we had a basic system, it wouldn't exactly work as well as bases tend to be more effective at "cleaning" (e.g. ammonia, bleach, soap, etc), so the functions of acids wouldn't be there.

And Matt already answered your 3rd question. Bases do have a taste. They tend to be "slippery" and bitter.

Edited by Andy Webb - July 18 2012 at 14:35

Smurph wrote:

aginor wrote:

new from Ikea, ikea beer

Do they give you the bottles and the hops and make you brew it yourself?

Probably, but the directions are probably useless and you will just end up brewing tea instead.

Smurph wrote:

aginor wrote:

new from Ikea, ikea beer

Do they give you the bottles and the hops and make you brew it yourself?

Ha, exactly what I was thinking.

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My friend and I once made up a bunch of improvised Nordic prog songs that were named after IKEA products. Those Swedish names just sounded too much like Anglagard and Hinn Islenski Thursaflokkur titles.

"Tenhult" was one of them, can't remember any others.

Edited by HolyMoly - July 18 2012 at 14:46

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I can't remember any other names. We recorded some of it, but my friend has it and it was over 10 years ago.

Edited by HolyMoly - July 18 2012 at 14:51

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It's Burgos (Spain).