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Indigestion tablets (antacids) may contain: CaCO3, MgCO3, Al(OH)3, Mg(OH)2, NaHCO3, KHCO3, etc.

All these substances dissolved make an alkaline solution - to neutralize the excess of hydrochloric acid from the stomach and to control of the gastric pH.

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the answer is sodium carbonate calcium carbonate nd light magnesium carbonate alll of them r alkali i kno dis nd im only 11

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