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Strong Support
Citric acid, like in lemons, loses parts of itself in water in three steps, and scientists measured how easily each step happens with numbers called pKa values.
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The study tested exactly what the claim said about citric acid losing protons in water and found the same three steps with matching numbers, so it supports the claim.
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