What makes effervescent tablets fizz

Effervescent tablets and powders often contain sodium bicarbonate and citric acid. Added to water, they mix to produce bubbles of colourless carbon dioxide gas. The carbon dioxide mixes with the air. Main use is because it makes some medications easier to take in liquid for but also you can get Vitamins that have Efferves it distributes the medicine or vitamins more evenly and you get some hydration in the process!

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Effervescent medicinal beverages date back to the late 1800s and originally arose to mask the taste of bitter waters taken as curatives, during the water cure craze of that era. Vitamin tablets may be sold as effervescent tablets. Alka-selzer is an antacid and pain reliever sold as an effervescent powder.

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There are several categories of active ingredients that may be best administered in the form of effervescent preparations:

1.Those that are difficult to digest or disruptive to the stomach or esophagus

2.Those that are pH–sensitive, such as amino acids and antibiotics.

3.Those requiring a large dose.

4.Those that are susceptible to light, oxygen, or moisture.