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Concentrating hydrochloric acid
Hi,
I would like to know, what happens if you boil 20% HCl? Does concentration drop, or does it first drop and then rise? As far as I know, you can't
concentrate HCl with just boiling water off, but 20% HCl has a boiling point of 108°C, so what happens then? Does it start to loose water or does it
start loosing HCl gas, or both? I'm confused. Also 10% HCl has 103°C boiling point, but 30+% has lower boiling point than water, isn't that weird?
So, can I concentrate it by boiling or not? If not, does that also hold true, if I use 31% HCl instead of 20%?
Thanks for your help 
[Edited on 14-10-2014 by xfusion44]
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If you boil 20% HCl, it boils off with the water as an azeotrope. Past that 20% threshold, heating the acid will release HCl gas.
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You could concentrate it by heating it and leading the gas into chilled water. If you can get your hands on HCl that is stronger than 20%, you could
use this method to produce concentrated HCl, and you'd be left with the 20% stuff, which is still very useful.
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Thanks!
So, I could use 31% HCl, boil it and lead gas into water, to produce 38% HCl? But How do I know, when to stop? By measuring temperature? And how much
chilled water should I use, to get 38% concentration with certain amount of 31% HCl?
Thx
PS: How about adding some concentrated H2SO4 to it and distilling it?
[Edited on 14-10-2014 by xfusion44]
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You wouldn't want to boil the acid too strongly, as this would put considerable water into the clean material.
If you're working outside or in a fume hood, you could use a graduated cylinder (extra height for efficiency) on a scale, and the mass increase would
tell you how much HCl gas has been absorbed.
If you used a closed absorber, you could put a bubbler on the output end, and wait for the bubbling here to speed up, which would indicate saturation.
The accuracy of this is entirely dependent on the efficiency of the absorber.
The NaCl / H2SO4 method would allow you to produce as much HCl as you wanted... If you live in the US (I believe this because
you referred to 31% HCl), hopefully you can find large amounts of sulfuric acid in hardware stores.
[Edited on 15-10-2014 by Awesomeness]
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@Awesomeness
No, I live in Europe. Actually it says 30-32% on acid bottle, so I said 31 
May I ask, why NaCl?
And thanks for your suggestions
PS: I can get acid for lead battery, but I need to concentrate it then... I know it's not worth spending so much conc. H2SO4 just to make conc. HCl,
but I just want to know, how can be done, just to have a sample of 38% HCl, maybe it comes handy some time.
[Edited on 15-10-2014 by xfusion44]
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If you have 30% HCl, then you can indeed increase its concentration fairly easily.
Take two portions of 30% HCl of equal volume. Chill one of the two portions (put the beaker with 30% HCl in a tank, filled with ice and/or snow).
To the other portion, add calcium chloride (you can purchase this from a hardware store as drying material) and heat gently. Copious amounts of HCl
will be released. Lead these through the chilled HCl and in this way you can easily increase the concentration to 37%. Be careful with this reaction,
the liquid may start foaming and then you may get contaminated liquid in your 37% HCl. Especially if the CaCl2 used in not really pure, then it may
foam easily. I have seen CaCl2 which was pale yellow/brown instead of pure white and this is terrible. Also avoid the perfumed drying agent, just buy
the cheapest pure white flakes.
The portion to which the CaCl2 is added can also be recovered, by distilling off most of the liquid. What remains is a concentrated solution of CaCl2
with a small amount of HCl left. This can be flushed down the drain with a lot of water.
Instead of CaCl2 you can also use conc. H2SO4, but using valuable conc. H2SO4 for such a thing is not what I like. But if you go for ease of reaction,
and do not mind using conc. H2SO4 for this purpose, then you can use that as well. Simply carefully drip the H2SO4 in the 30% HCl and lead the
produced gas through the chilled 30% HCl.
Even simpler, using no additional chemicals at all, is heating the 30% HCl and leading the produced gas though the other (chilled) portion. In this
way, however, you will have more difficulty producing HCl gas, soon the 30% HCl hardly produces any free gas and stronger heating is required.
Be careful and prevent suckback of your chilled HCl into the HCl gas generating bottle! Use of an small intermediate bottle reduces the risk of
suckback.
[Edited on 17-10-14 by woelen]
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@woelen
Thank you! I'm sure, I will try it with one of the methods you mentioned.
I have another question: can I also use CaCl2/ice bath, to reach temperatures of -40°C? I always wanted to buy CaCl2 to try this out. That way I
could probably freeze HCl in one beaker Do you think It's possible to make
liquid chlorine with CaCl2/ice bath?
Thanks again!
PS: sorry for offtopic with CaCl2/ice bath.
[Edited on 17-10-2014 by xfusion44]
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Quote: Originally posted by xfusion44  | @Awesomeness
No, I live in Europe. Actually it says 30-32% on acid bottle, so I said 31
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[Edited on 15-10-2014 by xfusion44] |
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No, no, everything's fine  It's obvious, that you couldn't know for sure, where I
live, just by knowing HCl concentration
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| Quote: Originally posted by woelen | If you have 30% HCl, then you can indeed increase its concentration fairly easily.
Take two portions of 30% HCl of equal volume. Chill one of the two portions (put the beaker with 30% HCl in a tank, filled with ice and/or snow).
To the other portion, add calcium chloride (you can purchase this from a hardware store as drying material) and heat gently. Copious amounts of HCl
will be released. Lead these through the chilled HCl and in this way you can easily increase the concentration to 37%. Be careful with this reaction,
the liquid may start foaming and then you may get contaminated liquid in your 37% HCl. Especially if the CaCl2 used in not really pure, then it may
foam easily. I have seen CaCl2 which was pale yellow/brown instead of pure white and this is terrible. Also avoid the perfumed drying agent, just buy
the cheapest pure white flakes.
The portion to which the CaCl2 is added can also be recovered, by distilling off most of the liquid. What remains is a concentrated solution of CaCl2
with a small amount of HCl left. This can be flushed down the drain with a lot of water.
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Wouldn't this method (adding CaCl2) work even with the azeotropic solution of HCl? Adding CaCl2 to obtain a 40% solution in water, increases the
boiling point to 120C, which is above the 20.2% HCl azeotrope's boiling point of 110C.
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with all this tech at last waht MAXIMUM concentra. of hcl people can obtain???
45%? 55%?...
what is the MAXIMUM concentration of HCL is obtained by the oficial science stablisment???
what can be done with hcl at 80%? what industrial applications, what science aplications? if anyone get hcl at 80% or more win the nobel?  
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| Quote: Originally posted by pneumatician | with all this tech at last waht MAXIMUM concentra. of hcl people can obtain???
45%? 55%?...
what is the MAXIMUM concentration of HCL is obtained by the oficial science stablisment???
what can be done with hcl at 80%? what industrial applications, what science aplications? if anyone get hcl at 80% or more win the nobel?
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Normally 37 wt% which corresponds to a 12M solution, and this is the concentration most labs have in storage - then they can dilute it with DI water
to the desired molarity.
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Hcl is a gas; concentrating above this;
Solubility in water
823 g/L (0 °C)
720 g/L (20 °C)
561 g/L (60 °C)
Will result in a water mixture that will fume hydrogen chloride... 31% "muriatic" will fume, but 20% largely will not...if you need hcl at higher
concentrations than ~36%, one likely ought use hydrogen chloride, and not aqeous hcl...(as indicated in above, solubility is inversely effected by
increase in temp.). You could super saturate the hcl/water mixture,but this wouldn't be worthy of a Nobel prize...
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DrMario -> Normally 37 wt%, and this is the concentration most labs have in storage - then they can dilute it with DI water to the desired
molarity.
oh yes! this is the maximum % in catalogs of companys selling chemicals for labs, BUT I are asking for a bit more... i want if someone have at hand
references about hcl at very big concentration! (of course not pure gas) (of course very fuming!!!)
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NaCl and h2SO4 (~95%) will produce hydrogen chloride gas. Using this gas requires apropos experience and equipment...
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You would have to essentially pressurize the water in order for it to hold more hcl. It's a gas/liquid solution, so concentration will drop whenever
muriatic is at higher concentration and in an environment where the hcl can escape - you would have to create a container capable of withstanding the
pressure required to keep the gas solvated in the water...you could generate pressurized hydrogen chloride that feeds into an airtight flask of
concentrated muriatic...but the success of this will be...likely lackluster...depending on pressure and purity of hydrogen chloride...if it reaches
high pressure and purity and if fed into say 37% HCl, you could super saturate it...it would be a serious danger though if you were successful.
Opening such an enclosure would shoot hcl gas likely quickly and dangerously.
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Famousroger -> You could super saturate the hcl/water mixture,but this wouldn't be worthy of a Nobel prize...
I already seemed to me !!
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Famousroger -> You would have to essentially pressurize the water in order for it to hold more hcl. It's a gas/liquid solution, so concentration
will drop whenever muriatic is at higher concentration and in an environment where...
ok this is all obviously. so the maximum handable in a normal lab is around 37% maybe with a maximum of 60%
so people in lab are playing with far more dangerous chems. I think in the correct lab and hands the hcl can be more strong, no?
so can this hcl at for exemple 80% disolve 24k gold?
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| Quote: Originally posted by pneumatician | Famousroger -> You would have to essentially pressurize the water in order for it to hold more hcl. It's a gas/liquid solution, so concentration
will drop whenever muriatic is at higher concentration and in an environment where...
ok this is all obviously. so the maximum handable in a normal lab is around 37% maybe with a maximum of 60%
so people in lab are playing with far more dangerous chems. I think in the correct lab and hands the hcl can be more strong, no?
so can this hcl at for exemple 80% disolve 24k gold?
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I think you misunderstand: 38% is the theoretical maximum wt% HCl that exists - it is the saturated solution and you cannot exceed this under normal
conditions. As far as I know, Sigma Aldrich only sells 37%, but that's very close to the absolute maximum concentration. You cannot create a 80% HCl
solution under normal conditions (normal pressure and temperature). There do exist some exotic systems with special surfactants etc., in which a
higher concentration is possible, but the HCl is not dissociated in water, in those cases. And the water is not pure, of course.
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Note, there are possible paths to defeating the azeotrope. For example, Wikipedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotrope ) describes several methods including pressure swing distillation, azeotropic distillation involving the
introduction of an an entrainer (an additional agent) impacting the volatility of one of the azeotrope constituents, chemical action separation where
an entrainer is added also having a strong chemical affinity for one of the constituents, distillation using a dissolved salt where a salt is
dissolved in a solvent to alter its relative boiling point, extractive distillation (similar to azeotropic distillation except that the entrainer is
less volatile than any of the azeotrope's constituents) to mention a few.
In the case of dilute HCl where the addition of a salt is not problematic for a particular application, one may consider the addition of anhydrous
calcium chloride (or, a concentrated solution thereof) as a possibility. The reason relates to the apparent significant increase in the so called
'activity level' upon adding MgCl2 or CaCl2 or NaCl (in declining order of preference). Here is a real world reference relating to practical
significance in the field of Hydrometallury where leaching out minerals from ores efficiently and cheaply is a major concern. Source: See
"Hydrometallurgy in Extraction Processes", Vol I, by C. K. Gupta and T. K. Mukherjee, page 15 at http://books.google.com/books?id=F7p7W1rykpwC&pg=PA15 .
Note, the author claims there is data confirming that a 2M HCl in 3M MgCl2 or CaCl2 (and also FeCl3) behaves like 7M HCl!
Here is a quote on the matter of discussion in one of the reference sources previously provided by Bfesser on Thermodynamic Activity (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_activity ):
"When a 0.1 M hydrochloric acid solution containing methyl green indicator is added to a 5 M solution of magnesium chloride, the color of the
indicator changes from green to yellow—indicating increasing acidity—when in fact the acid has been diluted. Although at low ionic strength
(<0.1 M) the activity coefficient approaches unity, this coefficient can actually increase with ionic strength in a high ionic strength regime. For
hydrochloric acid solutions, the minimum is around 0.4 M.[1]"
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| Quote: Originally posted by pneumatician | Famousroger -> You would have to essentially pressurize the water in order for it to hold more hcl. It's a gas/liquid solution, so concentration
will drop whenever muriatic is at higher concentration and in an environment where...
ok this is all obviously. so the maximum handable in a normal lab is around 37% maybe with a maximum of 60%
so people in lab are playing with far more dangerous chems. I think in the correct lab and hands the hcl can be more strong, no?
so can this hcl at for exemple 80% disolve 24k gold?
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37 or 38% is the point where you can't concentrate HCl solution anymore, because water will simply not dissolve anymore HCl gas. Note, that HCl is a
GAS, not a LIQUID. HCl acid is liquid (water with HCl gas dissolved in it). And at 38% wt. water becomes saturated and it cannot accept anymore HCl
gas at normal conditions T=20°C, p=100kPa. If you need higher concentration of HCl gas, you must use gas itself, not hydrochloric acid. Gold will not
dissolve in HCl, but it will however react with aqua regia (mixture of HCl and HNO3).
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AJKOER you are near the truth!! in reality (in official teorie) high con. hcl is more easy than anyone can think!! of course very fumming!! but for
this bottles have a stopper!!!
hcl at 37% also is fumming!
so the real hcl is around 20% when the "surface tension of water" is not break by the force or pressure of the gas, more than 20% hcl gas in water is
gas with water and - is water with gas. (brutal note)
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| Quote: Originally posted by pneumatician | | so the real hcl is around 20% when the "surface tension of water" is not break by the force or pressure of the gas, more than 20% hcl gas in water is
gas with water and - is water with gas. (brutal note) |
Hmm... do you know that HCl in water dissociates almost 100 % acc.:
HCl(aq) + H2O(l) === > H<sub>3</sub>O<sup>+</sup>(aq) + Cl<sup>-</sup>(aq)
Even saturated hydrochloric acid contains almost no free, undissociated HCl(aq).
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A curious question - when concentrating HCL by dissolving the dry gas in water, bubbling is usually used as best I can tell in reading the posts, and
of course this means you have to plan for/against suckback. On the other hand, I understand HCL to, like ammonia, be VERY soluable in water - so. for
preparation of smaller amounts, why can't you simply pass the gas OVER water , hence averting suckback? Is this one of those things that initially
works fine, but then as the solution approaches saturation your yield just goes way down?
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