How to Use hydrochloric acid in a Sentence

hydrochloric acid

noun

• Made out of hydrochloric acid, steam, and shards of volcanic glass, the gas is hazardous to anyone who breathes it.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 22 May 2018
• Winner of the 2019 Swiss Book Prize, this is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• When inhaled, chlorine turns to hydrochloric acid in the lungs, which can cause drowning from fluid buildup.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Apr. 2018
• Laze is formed when hot lava hits the ocean, reacts with sea water and sends hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles in the air.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2018
• Even if the virus gets into your mouth, drinking water and other fluids will help wash it down ... the hydrochloric acid in your stomach will kill the germs.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
• AThe hydrochloric acid steam cloud billows into the air, along with fine particles of glass.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
• Laze occurs when hot lava meets the ocean, sending a plume of hydrochloric acid and steam - along with fine glass particles - into the air.
  — Amy B Wang, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
• Laze occurs when hot lava meets the ocean, sending a plume of hydrochloric acid and steam — along with fine glass particles — into the air.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
• Thus, the amount of hydrochloric acid present should also relate to the starting concentration of CFCs.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
• The tanker cars were empty but some contained residual hydrochloric acid that leaked, according to the city.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
• Laze, or lava haze, is hydrochloric acid mist formed by the action of lava on seawater.
  — Temi Adebowale, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2018
• Tiny pieces are picked up by the steam cloud, which contains hydrochloric acid that also is created by the interaction of lava and the ocean.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 23 May 2018
• Lava that is entering the sea, as is common in Hawaii, can produce steam clouds that contain hydrochloric acid.
  — Giannella M. Garrett, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• The lava's entry into the ocean was also producing laze -- a hazardous mix of acidic steam, hydrochloric acid gas and tiny shards of volcanic glass.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 8 June 2018
• Vinyl chloride in the atmosphere breaks down into hydrochloric acid, a component of acid rain.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2023
• In the belly of the beast, gases like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and hydrochloric acid make the air impossible to breathe without a mask.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2014
• HCl is emitted into the air as a gas, but absorbs in water or water vapor to form a hydrochloric acid solution.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 21 Jan. 2022
• The laze steam plume rising from the Pacific Ocean contains a mixture of hydrochloric acid gas along with small volcanic gas particles.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 21 May 2018
• Scientists said the steam clouds at the spots where lava entered the ocean were laced with hydrochloric acid and fine glass particles that can irrigate the skin and eyes and cause breathing problems.
  — CBS News, 21 May 2018
• Muriatic acid is a slightly less potent form of hydrochloric acid.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
• By this point, in addition to destroying ozone, the chlorine in the CFCs would have reacted with methane and produced hydrochloric acid.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
• Laze plumes occur when lava meets salty sea water and sends up clouds of hydrochloric acid and steam embedded with fine glass particles.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2019
• When the researchers lowered the pH with hydrochloric acid, the water fleas responded normally to predators.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• To do that, grab a pH testing kit and adjust up or down using baking soda or diluted hydrochloric acid.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021
• On May 20, the lava reached the Pacific Ocean, generating laze (a combination of glass, hydrochloric acid and steam) as the molten rock was cooled by the seawater.
  — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2019
• Scientists said the steam clouds at the spots where lava entered the ocean were laced with hydrochloric acid and fine glass particles that can irritate skin and eyes and cause breathing problems.
  — Caleb Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2018
• When this happens, water boils away, and the resulting reactions produce a noxious plume of steam, hydrochloric acid, and shards of volcanic glass.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 25 May 2018
• Video footage from a helicopter showed two seaside homes engulfed in flames as clouds of white steam and hydrochloric acid fumes billowed from the water, where red-hot lava was pouring into the ocean.
  — Author: Terray Sylvester, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2018
• Experts also added that hydrochloric acid, which is the byproduct of vinyl chloride when it is burned, does not typically get picked up by air currents or create acid rain.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• The first step in this conversion process typically entails exposing CBD to an acid such as hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024