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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do bases "eat" flesh?

with acids it is because the released H-atoms react with the proteins and breaks up the pepitde bond. but how do bases work?
gpt
Bases do this through saponification.  Saponification is the hydrolosis of the fatty acid esters that make up our cell membranes.  This reaction goes much slower than that of the acid, but when completed, the "flesh" or whatever organ it used to be should be dissolved into the solution.