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Why HCl is called acid?

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Because HCl react with bases, salts, oxides, metals, the solution has an acidic pH and HCl dissociate forming hydrogen ions, H+.

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What is the acid HCl called?

hydrochloric acid


Is HCl a aqueous acid?

No, HCl is a gas, though quite soluble in water (up to 720 g/L), which is called hydrochloric acid.


A reaction between an acid and a base is?

It is called an acid-base reaction. The product is called a salt. For example: NaOH + HCl -> NaCl + H2O NaOH is the base. HCl is the acid. NaCl is the salt. H2O is water.


What is HCl as a binary acid?

HCl is hydrochloric acid. It is called a binary acid because it is made of just two atoms, one hydrogen (H) and one chlorine (Cl).


What lowers the pH level in the stomach?

An acid called HCL


What is HCl is an example of?

HCl (hydrochloric acid) is an acid.


Full name for HCl?

Other than being hydrochloric acid, which is an aqueous solution of HCl which fully dissociates to form OH3+ and Cl- (HCl is a strong acid), this compound in the gaseous form is called...,hydrogen chloride.


Is hcl a carbonic acid?

HCl is hydrochloric acid. Carbonic acid is H2CO3


Why is Hcl production in our stomach good for us?

Our stomach contain a strong acid called Hyrdchloric acid ( HCL) which help to kill germs in the food we eat.


HCl is the formula for which acid?

HCl is the formula for hydrochloric acid.


Why is HCL gas not an acid but HCL aqueous an acid?

becoz HCL aqueous s has an ability to react with bases and it changes the blue litmus in to red colour hence HCL gas is noit an acid but HCL aqueous an acid.


What is the acid name for H2ClO?

hydrochloric acid Nope. Hydrochloric Acid is HCl(gas) dissolved in water which gives H3ClO2 (which would be better written as H3OCl). HCl(gas) is called hydrogen chloride, it is only called hydrochloric acid when it is dissolve in water.. Back to the H2ClO ... Hypoclorous Acid