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If you meant HCl, Hydrochloric Acid, it is a strong acid and not a base. A way to tell if it is an acid is that it has an H+ in the chemical formula. Most of the time, if it is a base it has an OH- attached to the chemical formula, but this is not necessarily true for all bases.

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