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WHOOWEE!!! WHAT A GREAT PARTY I WAS AL LAST NIGHT!!!!!" you think to yourself just after you fall out of the chandelier. You find yourself on the floor, and you are suffering from the worst headache you have ever experienced in your life. The only thing you can find for it is a bottle of aspirin. You pop tow tablets in your mouth and gulp down a glass of water. The tables and water reach your stomach, which contain HCL, What compounds will be present in your stomach after a period of time has and a chemical reaction has occurred. Write and a balanced chemical reaction for this description and name all the compounds present, meaning name reactants and products.

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Ans. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) reacts with stomach HCl to produce its constituent molecules- salicylic acid and acetic acid.

Acetylsalicylic acid(aq) + HCl(aq) ---------> Salicylic acid(aq) + Acetic acid(aq) + H2O(l)

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