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Antacid Summary
1,006 words, approx. 3 pages
Roughly 95 million Americans suffer from heartburn, which can result from stress, eating too much or too fast, or eating spicy or fatty foods. Symptoms include a burning sensation, gas, nausea, and pain. Many people treat this condition by using...
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Antacids Summary
483 words, approx. 2 pages
Antacids are medicines that neutralize stomach acid. They are used to relieve acid indigestion, upset stomach, sour stomach, and heartburn. Antacids are taken by mouth and work by neutralizing excess stomach acid. They contain ingredients such as...
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Antacid
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Any substance, such as sodium bicarbonate, magnesium hydroxide, or aluminum hydroxide, used to relieve the discomfort caused by indigestion, gastritis, and several forms of ulcers. Antacids counteract or neutralize gastric acidity for up to three hours...
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Antacid Information
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An antacid is any substance, generally a base, which counteracts stomach acidity. In other words, antacids are stomach acid...


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FDA Consumer
Recipe for relief. (FDA requirements for antacids)
01/01/1992: 321 words, approx. 1 pages
FDA requires that every antacid on the market be safe (which means the antacid won't cause serious side effects, provided you take it in the proper dosage over the recommended period of time) and effective (which means the antacid will do what it's...
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FDA Consumer
What's in an antacid?
01/01/1992: 523 words, approx. 2 pages
The opposite of an acid is a base, and that's exactly what antacids are. But a base all by itself can't neutralize the acid inside you. For reasons that are best explained on a blackboard in chemistry class, a base needs some...
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Burning Man founders mired in dispute
1/11/2007: 473 words, approx. 2 pages
There's trouble in the desert.A co-founder of Burning Man, the annual six-day festival of self-expression that culminates in the torching of a 40-foot effigy on the salt flats of northern Nevada, has sued his ex-partners to strip them of ownership of the event's name and...
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Investor's Business Daily
Whether Vanes
6/8/2007: 605 words, approx. 2 pages
Climate Change: The NASA administrator who strayed from the true path on global warming has recanted his skepticism. Is the debate really over, or are those who question warming orthodoxy the ones being silenced?In a moment of candor that must have had Al Gore grasping...
 


 

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