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Is uric acid (Gout) not handled by the bloods bicarbonate buffer system?

Is uric acid (Gout) not handled by the bloods bicarbonate buffer system?


Is uric acid (Gout) not handled by the bloods bicarbonate buffer system?

Posted: 12 Jul 2021 01:30 AM PDT

Hello, I am on the tail end of a gout attack and was wondering if the high levels of uric acid are also supposed to be regulated by the bicarbonate buffer system. If so, can that buffer be 'depleted' leading to the uric acid not being compensated?

Thanks.

Edit: Thanks for all the informative answers everybody!

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Can we know if a certain statement is provable?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 06:01 PM PDT

I was watching a video about Gödel's incompleteness theorem and they talked about how in every mathematical system there are statements that cannot be proven. Can we know what statements are not provable, or at least know if a statement is? Or do we just get a list of "Things that we haven't proven yet and that may contain some of the unprobable statements"?

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Why exactly do the tectonic plates move in different directions?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:40 PM PDT

I fully understand that tectonic plates are just pieces of crust that move because of the convection cells of lava and rock beneath the surface moving them towards a certain direction. But my question is why do the different convection cells all move in different directions, what determines that? So for example, the Indo-Australian and Pacific plates have a convergent border, so my question is why does the Indo-Australian plate's convection cell move east and the Pacific Plate's convection cell move west rather than both of them just moving in the same direction?

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Does electricity flowing through a transmission line create any measurable pull on the lines?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:27 AM PDT

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but electricity wants to return to the earth, so does that have any "pull," so to speak, that can be measured?

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How accurate are old temperature records?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 03:12 AM PDT

I read today that temperatures in Death Valley, California hit a new record of 130 F degrees, breaking the previous 129 F record in 1913.

How accurate were temperature readings in 1913? I'm assuming it has improved since then, so what is the process for doing comparisons throughout historical improvements in technology for reading temperature?

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Tectonically, what will happen to the Indian subcontinent in the far future?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 09:42 PM PDT

Since the Tibetan Plateau was created by the Indian plate moving into Eurasian plate, I was wondering if the entire subcontinent would one day be compressed into similar mountain ranges.

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I recently got the Sinopharm vaccine. This vaccine is made from inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus. But since is the same virus, does the vaccine evade the immune system for a few days like the live virus does?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 05:52 PM PDT

Is there a certain altitude where CO2 is concentrated?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 01:00 PM PDT

How do doctors distinguish true hypertension from severe anxiety syndromes?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 02:47 PM PDT

There is the well known phenomenon of "white coat hypertension" in which someone has high blood pressure when measured in a medical office but has normal readings when they measure their pressure at home. But what about someone who has an anxiety disorder and say has developed a phobia of having high blood pressure and cannot take a reading anywhere because the fear of getting a high reading spikes their blood pressure in advance?

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Do rising temperatures (air or ocean) have an effect of plate tectonics?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 10:42 AM PDT

How come estrogen and progesterone protect women from heart attacks? What’s the connection?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 11:57 AM PDT

Is there an equation describing the force acting on a ferromagnetic material by a magnet of field strength B?

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 06:35 AM PDT

Hello, searching online you can find many articles pointing to the Lorentz force that describes the force acting on a charge by an electric and magnetic field but there seems to be no equation that describes the force acting on a material by a magnet of strength B. For example, how would you describe the motion of an iron rod acted on by an electromagnet of strength B. I think that the magnetic strength depends on the electron spin of the valence electrons throughout the material. (I could be wrong though), so it seems like you could describe such a force at least probabistacly. But look as I might I couldn't find such a formula. Does it exist? If not, why?

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How far away can a nuclear explosion be detected seismically?

Posted: 10 Jul 2021 08:23 PM PDT

Bonus if you can tell me detectable distances for both above and below ground explosions.

I've found that there are 50 seismic monitoring stations that span the globe and can detect explosions anywhere on Earth but I can't really find anything more specific about the distance an explosion can be detected from.

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How do wildfires affect weather?

Posted: 10 Jul 2021 05:51 PM PDT

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