hydrochloricadj.
/hʌɪdrəʊˈklɔːrɪk/ Chemistry.
Containing hydrogen and chlorine in chemical combination. hydrochloric acid, called also hydrogen chloride (HCl), a colourless gas of strongly acid taste and pungent irritating odour, extremely soluble in water. (Earlier names were muriatic acid, spirit of salt, chlorhydric acid.)
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1817 A. Ure in Ann. Philos. 10 268 On the Quantity of Real Acid in Liquid Hydrochloric.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vi. 162 The hydro-chloric acid of the shops is a saturated solution of this gas in water.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat vii. 188 One volume of chlorine combines with one volume of hydrogen, to form two volumes of hydrochloric acid.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) vii. 109 Chlorine eagerly seizes on the hydrogen to form a compound known as hydrochloric acid gas.
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