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No. The correct acid used in car batteries is Sulfuric Acid and it is a special battery formulation.

Hydrochloric acid will destroy the plates over night.

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Is hydrochloric acid use for car battery?

No, sulphuric acid is used.


Can hydrochloric acid be used in battery?

Depends on your battery. In a lead-acid battery, like a 12V you find in most cars, sulfuric acid is used because hydrochloric acid will not form Pb304 (lead oxide). Pencil batteries are alkaline batteries and use a base instead of acid. However some batteries might accept HCL, just not most.


Vw gti change battery water?

No, you don't ever change battery water. Batteries have hydrochloric acid in them, not water, even though you use water to top them off. Do not mess with the acid in your battery. You should always use distilled water to fill your batteries.


Hydrochloric acid formula and use?

HCl. Your stomach uses hydrochloric acid in the digestive process.


What is the liquid inside of a battery?

car batteries use sulphuric acid


Could you use muriatic acid for your car battery?

No, sulfuric only


Can you substitute muratic acid for battery acid?

You do not use muratic acid with car batteries. You use sulfuric acid. You use about 35% Sulfuric acid and 65% Distilled (de-ionized) water


Which acid you need to use for gold test hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid?

nitric acid


How do you use acid in a sentence?

The hydrochloric acid burned my skin, or the hydrochloric acid can burn things if it touches or can have certain things dissolve or melt, like ice.


Do they use hydrochloride acid to make cocaine powder?

If you mean hydrochloric acid the answeer ist yes, hydrochloric acid is used to percipictate cocaine of solution


Can a car take any kind of battery acid?

It is unusual to add battery acid to a car. Cars (not hybrids) normally use lead acid batteries and the acid is sulfuric acid, however you don't add sulfuric acid. When the fluid in a cell is low you add distilled water. Only the water has evaporated, the acid has not.


Which acid would you use if you wanted to make copper nitrate?

hydrochloric acid