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When you ingest the common food preservative, sodium benzoate, it reacts with the hydrochloric acid in...

When you ingest the common food preservative, sodium benzoate, it reacts with the hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Show the mechanism and corresponding products for this reaction.

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Sodium benzoate is C6H5COONa.It forms Benzoic acid and NaCl with stomach HCl.

Benzoic acid is toxic.

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