Hydrochloric acid is a destructive, solid mineral acidwith numerous modern employments. A dreary, very sharp arrangement of hydrogen chloride (HCl) in water, when it responds with a natural base it shapes a hydrochloride salt.

Hydrochloric acid was verifiably called acid um salis, muriatic corrosive, and spirits of salt since it was created from shake salt and green vitriol (by Basilius Valentinus in the fifteenth century) and later from the artificially comparable basic salt and sulfuric acid(by Johann Rudolph Glauber in the seventeenth century).

Hydrochloric acid was referred to European chemists as spirits of salt or acidum salis (salt corrosive).

Structure and responses

Hydrochloric acid is the salt of hydronium particle, H3O+ and chloride. It is typically arranged by treating HCl with water


Hydrochloric acid can in this manner be utilized to get ready salts called chlorides. Hydrochloric acid is a solid corrosive, since it is totally separated in water

Physical properties of hydrochloric corrosive, for example, bubbling and dissolving focuses, thickness, and pH, rely on upon the fixation or molarity of HCl in the fluid arrangement. They extend from those of water at low fixations moving toward 0% HCl to values for seething hydrochloric acid at more than 40% HCl.

Density of hydrochloric acid HCl (M=36,47g/mol)

Density ρ at 20°C Mass Percent HCl
1,000 0,3600
1,005 1,3600
1,010 2,364
1,015 3,374
1,020 4,388
1,025 5,408
1,030 6,433
1,035 7,464
1,040 8,490
1,045 9,510
1,050 10,52
1,060 12,51
1,065 13,50
1,070 14,495
1,,075 15,485
1,080 16,47
1,085 17,45
1,090 18,43
1,095 19,41
1,100 20,39
1,105 21,36
1,110 22,33
1,115 23,29
1,120 24,25
1,125 25,22
1,130 26,20
1,135 27,18
1,140 28,18
1,145 29,17
1,150 30,14