Answer to Question #70025 in General Chemistry for ali

Question

if the antacid for analysis is known to be Phillips' milk of magnesia the solution does not need to heat but if the sample is Mylanta the solution must be heated

Answer 1

The only sufficient difference in the experimental procedures is if the product of the reactant(s)
need to be heated or not. For the Phillips Milk of magnesia, heat is not added. Therefore, its
procedure would look like this:
Reactant → Product (No heat is required to obtain the product).
But for the sample of Maalox, the reactant(s) would require heat in order to get the product so the
procedure would look like this:
Reactant → Heat → Product (Heat is required in the reaction to obtain the product).