Concept information
Preferred term
Hydrochloric Acid
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Acid, Muriatic
- Chloride, Hydrogen
- Hydrogen Chloride
- Muriatic Acid
Note
- HCl; not for gastric HCl ( = GASTRIC ACID); /analogs = CHLORIDES or specific chloride; = "chlorhydrate" in foreign texts: translate as "hydrochloric acid", not "chlorhydrate"
Scope note
- A strong corrosive acid that is commonly used as a laboratory reagent. It is formed by dissolving hydrogen chloride in water. GASTRIC ACID is the hydrochloric acid component of GASTRIC JUICE.
In other languages
-
Finnish
-
acidum hycrochloricum
-
HCl
-
kloorivetyhappo
-
Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006851
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}