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Bee sting has a pH between 4.5 and 5.5, so it is slightly acidic!
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Bee sting is acidic
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Click here to view my profile and arrange a free introduction.To know whether something is acidic or alkaline is extremely important and useful!
Bee stings are acidic, but be careful to not mix this up with wasps as wasps are alkaline! This is important to know as if you got stung you need to put bicarbonate of soda on a bee sting and vinegar on a wasp sting.
The main amino acids you will find in bed venom are Cysteine and Methionine which both contain sulphur making bee stings acidic!
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Bee stings are acidic. If you were to be stung be a bee, you need to add an alkaline substance to neutralise it.
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Formic acid is present in a bee sting so a bee sting is weakly acidic. This can be counteracted by bicarbonate of soda.
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Click here to view my profile and arrange a free introduction.Bee stings are technically slightly acidic, however have a pH of around 5.0 to 5.5 making them interestingly only as acidic as coffee, wasps stings on the other hand are more on the Alkaline end of the pH scale.
A bee sting is acidic. It has a pH of 4.5-5.5.
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A bee sting is acidic, it contains formic acid (methanoic acid), as part of its complex chemical composition.
So you would want to use something alkali to neutralise it.
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