Hydrochloric acid, known as muriatic acid, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride.
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21 Facts About Hydrochloric acid
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Hydrochloric acid is an important laboratory reagent and industrial chemical.
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The knowledge of mineral acids such as hydrochloric acid would be of key importance to seventeenth-century chemists like Daniel Sennert and Robert Boyle, who used their capability to rapidly dissolve metals in their demonstrations of the composite nature of bodies.
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The name muriatic Hydrochloric acid has the same origin, and this name is still sometimes used.
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The name hydrochloric acid was coined by the French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1814.
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Since hydrochloric acid was already fully settled as an important chemical in numerous applications, the commercial interest initiated other production methods, some of which are still used today.
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Hydrochloric acid is usually prepared industrially by dissolving hydrogen chloride in water.
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The large-scale production of hydrochloric acid is almost always integrated with the industrial scale production of other chemicals, such as in the chloralkali process which produces hydroxide, hydrogen, and chlorine, the latter of which can be combined to produce HCl.
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Hydrochloric acid is a strong inorganic acid that is used in many industrial processes such as refining metal.
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One of the most important applications of hydrochloric acid is in the pickling of steel, to remove rust or iron oxide scale from iron or steel before subsequent processing, such as extrusion, rolling, galvanizing, and other techniques.
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Akin to its use for pickling, hydrochloric acid is used to dissolve many metals, metal oxides and metal carbonates.
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In industry demanding purity, high-quality hydrochloric acid is used to control the pH of process water streams.
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High-quality hydrochloric acid is used in the regeneration of ion exchange resins.
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Common strong mineral acids in chemistry, hydrochloric acid is the monoprotic acid least likely to undergo an interfering oxidation-reduction reaction.
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Intermediate-strength hydrochloric acid solutions are quite stable upon storage, maintaining their concentrations over time.
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Hydrochloric acid is the preferred acid in titration for determining the amount of bases.
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Strong Hydrochloric acid titrants give more precise results due to a more distinct endpoint.
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Hydrochloric acid is used for a large number of small-scale applications, such as leather processing, household cleaning, and building construction.
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When used on brickwork the reaction with the mortar only continues until the Hydrochloric acid has all been converted, producing calcium chloride, carbon dioxide, and water:.
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Many chemical reactions involving hydrochloric acid are applied in the production of food, food ingredients, and food additives.
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Hydrochloric acid has been listed as a Table II precursor under the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances because of its use in the production of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
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