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What are the following substance? Give one example.
Antacids.

Answer

Antacids:
Chemical substances which remove the excess acid in the stomach and raise the pH to appropriate level, e.g., sodium hydrogencarbonate, a mixture of aluminium and magnesium hydroxide, ranitidine, etc.

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