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| Thread ID: 98737 | 2009-04-05 06:27:00 | Where to get hydrochlorc acid? | forrest44 (754) | PC World Chat |
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| 762436 | 2009-04-05 07:35:00 | Hydrochloric is HCl not HCL. Thank you for that. I never would have known apart from you correcting me. Maybe I should also use superscripts or Subscripts. Do you agree that Spirits of salt is NOT Hydrochloric acid? "Where can I get hydrochlorc acid?" From the original poster it would seem to suggest a short one line answer. Like what is hydrochlorc acid? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 762437 | 2009-04-05 07:36:00 | can we ask what you need it for?? From memory, the suppliers will be canny as I think it is used in the manufacture of "P" I seem to remember a case of a dairy owner supplying it to gangs in Northland or something like that? Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 762438 | 2009-04-05 07:39:00 | Everyone well a lot of people seem to call it HCL instead of HCI. I seen this dicussion in a chemical forum. Used in the manufacure of MA - Meth, other drug manufacuring that requires an acid base extraction or percipitation of the HCI salt and it also has a variety of other "legal uses" Easily obtainable from Mitre 10 and Place Makers, It's not Lab grade but does the job, in USA they call it Muratic acid, but here we call it Spirit of Salts ask for that, say you want to clean some concrete if they ask, or tell them what you really want if for if its for legal use. :thumbs: |
radium (8645) | ||
| 762439 | 2009-04-05 07:44:00 | It's most commonly used for cleaning cement splashes, if Mitre10 have it Bunnings are just inventing a reason why they don't. Also used for pH control in pools. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 762440 | 2009-04-05 07:45:00 | I'm certain it was HCl - it was a visit to Wikipedia (while not an authoritative source) which sparked my memory: en.wikipedia.org Agreed but look up Vitriol and Common Salt. The formula for common salt is NaCl otherwise known as Sodium Chloride. Have you a chemical formula for Vitriol? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 762441 | 2009-04-05 08:02:00 | Agreed but look up Vitriol and Common Salt. The formula for common salt is NaCl otherwise known as Sodium Chloride. Have you a chemical formula for Vitriol? To be completely honest with you, I don't care what the chemical formula of Vitriol is - I posted in this thread with the intention of helping the original poster find something he/she was looking for. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 762442 | 2009-04-05 08:07:00 | Last time I bought it NZ in it was from Placemakers. I buy it in Oz as liquid PH reducer from our local swinmming pool suppolies outlet- it is reasonably concentrated and chemically pure. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 762443 | 2009-04-05 08:11:00 | chemically pure. You would need to buy Lab or reagent grade to get any where close to pure |
radium (8645) | ||
| 762444 | 2009-04-05 08:32:00 | can we ask what you need it for?? I'm going to have a go at etching some PCBs. To be more exact, a board to program a PIC16F628A microcontroller, and later, a Xilinx Sparten IIE FPGA. I saw in the photo of the Spirit of Salts on the Mitre 10 website it is hydrochloric acid. If I recall correctly from chemistry at school, the name is HCl. (H - C - small L., not H - C - I) |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 762445 | 2009-04-05 08:34:00 | Not many engineer/plumber types here......:thumbs: Spirits of Salts or hydrochloric acid, HCl, note radium I didn't write HCI :) as sold in hardware shops, or, as they were called in the olden days 'drysalters' was/is used as a soldering flux. For example if you wanted to solder a lead flashing onto galvanised roofing iron you could use spirits of salts. A commercial acidic soldering flux like 'Duzall' will contain hydrochloric acid, zinc chloride and ammonium chloride. It will enable soldering of metals that resin cored solder wont touch. You dont use hydrochloric acid in electrical soldering. You would only be able to get concentrated 'fuming' HCl from a chemical suppliers, the stuff you may be able to get from a hardware shop will be diluted. Edit: I see you want to etch pcbs, then the stuff to use is Ferric Chloride, Dick Smith used to, may still sell it. Otherwise beg some from a pcb manufacturer. Edit again: It seems that neither Jaycar or DSE stock ferric chloride, electronic hobbying is in its death throws....... :( Edit yet again: you need to rephrase the question "where can I buy Ferric Chloride ?" :) you dont want to use hydrochloric acid for pcbs. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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