Originally Posted by genejockey

I was watching a GCN video last night where they said that it's not 'lactic acid' that accumulates in your muscles when you've gone anaerobic. No, they said, it's 'lacate'.

O-o-okay. I mean "lactate" is the anion in lactic acid, but okay. Maybe it's Sodium Lacate? Then they said there's a large production of hydrogen ions.

So I thought, "If you have a lot of hydrogen ions, and a lot of 'lactate', don't you just have lactic acid?

Am I wrong here? I mean, chemistry was 40 years ago, but still.....