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Definition of Hydrochloric acid

1. Noun. An aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acid.

Definition of Hydrochloric acid

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) A strong acid made by dissolving the gas, hydrogen chloride, in water. It reacts with alkalis, bases and many metals to form chlorides; it has many industrial applications. ¹

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Medical Definition of Hydrochloric acid

1. Hydrochloric acid. Solutions of hydrogen chloride gas in water. It is a highly corrosive, strong mineral acid commonly used as a laboratory reagent. It is present endogenously as the acid component of gastric juice (hydrochloric acid, gastric see gastric acid). Chemical name: Hydrochloric acid (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Hydrochloric acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"portions of concentrated hydrochloric acid, again drained by suction, then washed with a second five i cc.-portions of acid, etc. Each five i cc. ..."

2. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"About 5 cc. of the sample are taken and 1 drop of hydrochloric acid and half a ... hydrochloric acid in Acetic Acid Determined by the turbidity test as in ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1880)
"According to M. Loir, this compound behaves differently with hydrochloric acid and witli chlorine, accordingly as it has been prepared by the action of ..."

4. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1921)
"hydrochloric acid is found free in nature, but in small quantities (for ... hydrochloric acid is set free by the action of concentrated sulfuric acid upon a ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"On the Action of hydrochloric acid on ... is heated with excess of hydrochloric acid under pressure that it splits up into chloride of methyl, water, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The dark-violet solution gives a precipitate with hydrochloric acid. ... The blue-black aqueous solution becomes redder with hydrochloric acid. ..."

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