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hydrochloric acid

NOUN
  1. an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acid

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  • ~ -- Ores, &c., containing antimony are best opened up by boiling with hydrochloric acid or aqua regia; treatment with nitric acid should be avoided wherever possible, since it forms antimonic acid, which is subsequently dissolved only with difficulty. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • We also simulated seed passage through the avian gut by soaking freshly collected 1997-98 unhandled seeds in concentrated hydrochloric acid for 40 minutes and rubbing the aril off with cloth.
  • Hydrochloric acid is sometimes replaced by nitric or sulphuric acid.
  • Phenol can be produced from aniline by reacting aniline with a mixture of sodium nitrite and hydrochloric acid to give benzene diazonium chloride, that when heated gently, gives off nitrogen to leave phenol.
  • Telluric acid is reduced to tellurous (with evolution of chlorine) on boiling with hydrochloric acid. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • On boiling with hydrochloric acid they are both liberated, and remain for the greater part (all the niobic) in the insoluble residue with the tungstic acid. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • _Potassium_ may be determined by precipitation as potassium platino-chloride thus: -- Dissolve 0.5 gramme in a small quantity (say 10 c.c.) of water, and carefully acidulate with hydrochloric acid, evaporate the resultant liquor to dryness in a tared platinum basin, and heat the residue gradually to dull redness. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • In addition to poisons, smoke and fumes, steelworkers are exposed on an almost continuous basis to such toxic substances as tar, benzene and hydrochloric acid, to name only a few.
  • Scheele produced chlorine by treating the mineral pyrolusite with hydrochloric acid (HCl).
  • The betaine in this compound does not alter gastric acidity, but simply ‘delivers’ the hydrochloric acid.
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