[email protected] wrote:

Marshall: No way can carbonic acid reduce the pH under 3!. Test the pH of

> soda water which is UNDER CO2 PRESSURE. Want to take bets on the pH you'll
> find?
> A pH under 3 probably wont give you stomach pains though because it would
> probably be completely consumed burning up your esophagus.
>
> Roger

I am not a chemist so I really don't know.  But I would think that the authors 
of
a chemistry book would know what they are talking about.  See example 4 of the
attached file.

Marshall

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