Re: Does Carbonation really damage teeth?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 lizzard woman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The pH of carbonated drinks is extremely low (<2 IIRC) when you first open
> the can/bottle but quickly comes up.  It seems to have a low ionic strength
> which means that its relatively dilute.  You can have a relatively dilute
> solution that has a very low pH.


I checked some Coke with a pH meter when I was in college, and it was 
2.0. That was close to 20 years ago, though, so I don't know if the 
formula has changed at all (the formula for Coke, not the formula for 
calculating pH).

--Harold Buck


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 and party every day.
 Then it was every other day. . . ."
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