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hydrochloric

/ˌhaɪdrəʊˈklɔrɪk/

hydrochloric adjective: of or relating to hydrochloric acid.

Adjective

hydrochloric (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to hydrochloric acid.
    • In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom...1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58

hydrochloric meaning in Tamil, Malay and Vietnamese

hydrochloric in Tamil

நீரகம்

hydrochloric in Malay

relating to hydrochloric acid
hidroklorik

hydrochloric in Vietnamese

relating to hydrochloric acid
clo-hi-đrích

Origin of hydrochloric

From hydro- + chloric.

Words formed from hydrochloric

Phrases with hydrochloric

Questions about hydrochloric

What does hydrochloric mean?
Hydrochloric means of or relating to hydrochloric acid.
What is hydrochloric in Tamil?
Hydrochloric in Tamil is நீரகம். See Hydrochloric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hydrochloric?
Hydrochloric is an adjective.
How do you pronounce hydrochloric?
Hydrochloric is pronounced /ˌhaɪdrəʊˈklɔrɪk/ (US).

Words near hydrochloric in the dictionary

  1. hydrochinone
  2. hydrochinonum
  3. hydrochlorate
  4. hydrochlorates
  5. hydrochlorborite
  6. hydrochloric
  7. hydrochloric acid
  8. hydrochloric acids
  9. hydrochlorid
  10. hydrochloride
  11. hydrochloride of strychnine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrochloric (page history and authors); hydrochloric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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