Re: NANFA-L-- cold euthanasia

Bonnie McNeely (bnmcneely-in-sbcglobal.net)
Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:02:56 -0700 (PDT)

It's the sodium bicarbonate that provides the sleeping agent, carbon dioxide. Citric acid just releases the carbon dioxide from the bicarbonate form. In the stomach, where the stuff is intended, HCl would do that fine, so I'm not sure why the citric acid is there. However, were there not some acidifying agent, the bicarbonate would not release the CO-2.

Dave

geoffrey kimber <gkimber2-in-gmail.com> wrote:
The original alkaseltzer tablet is:

Aspirin - 325 MG
Sodium Bicarbonate - 1916 MG
Citric Acid - 1000 MG

If you wanted, you could buy the citric acid, but I expect that clove
oil is much cheaper and easier to transport.

Geoff
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