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Article #526The pH of saliva
From: ephs Barbara Chalfonte
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 18:54
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 18:54
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We have a _raging_ controversy here that standard sources of information have failed to resolve. Is saliva basic or acidic? I thought acidic, in keeping in line with the rest of the GI tract, my office-mate thought basic, being the exception to the GI tract. So which is it? Having looked at several standard dictionaries, medical dictionaries, and encyclopedias, the conclusion is still unresolved: some say mildly alkaline, others say alkaline in reaction, and others say mildly acidic (pH=6.8). Mostly these sources just don't say. Our stockroom doesn't cater to such nonsense and thus has no litmus paper. What's the real story????? Barb Chalfonte Bellcore MRE 2D-292 445 South Street Morristown, NJ 07960 email: ephs@thumper.bellcore.com PS: The lucky winner with the definitive answer gets to find out _why_ anyone in telecomm & computer research would want to know this...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!texsun!texbell!bellcore!roy!ephs From: ephs@roy..bellcore.com (Barbara Chalfonte) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: The pH of saliva Message-ID: <18383@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 28 Nov 89 18:54:04 GMT Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Reply-To: ephs@thumper.bellcore.com (Barb Chalfonte) Organization: Bellcore MRE Lines: 22