Product Profile of Hydrochloric Acid
Hydrochloric Acid finds wide applications as pickling of steel, regeneration of ion exchangers, effluent treatment to preparation of gelatine, glucose and maltose. The Hydrochloric Acid is a solution of hydrogen chloride gas in water and has a pungent odour, fumes strongly in moist air and varies in appearance from clear and colourless to pale yellow. The Hydrochloric Acid dissolves most of the common metals, releasing hydrogen and reacts with metal oxides and hydroxides to form chlorides. Hydrochloric Acid is very irritating to the skin and mucous membranes and can cause severe burns.
Key Features of Hydrochloric Acid
- Obtained as a by-product during many chlorination and fluorination reaction.
- Solution of hydrogen chloride gas in water.
- It has a pungent odour, fumes strongly in moist air and varies in appearance from clear and colourless to pale yellow.
- It is completely miscible with water and alcohol.
- When distilled in an open container, hydrochloric acid solutions form an azeotropic mixture with a constant boiling point of 110degree C [230degree F] at 101.3 KPa.
- Very irritating to the skin and mucous membranes and can cause severe burns. Contact with it should, therefore, be avoided.
- Pickling of steel.
- Regeneration of ion exchangers.
- Effluent treatment to preparation of gelatine.
- Glucose and maltose.
- Ideal for chemical synthesis.
