Sciencemadness Discussion Board
Not logged in [Login ]
Go To Bottom

Printable Version  
 Pages:  1    3
Author: Subject: Making Hydrochloric Acid
HydroCarbon
Hazard to Self
**




Posts: 77
Registered: 7-7-2008
Location: Anytown, USA
Member Is Offline

Mood: No Mood

[*] posted on 19-4-2009 at 20:23


Quote: Originally posted by Elawr  



The mechanism is sufficiently robust that pH levels as low as around 2 are attained for gastric juice, before being transported out of the cell into the gastric secretory ducts.

Pretty strong stuff stomach acid is!

[Edited on 11-4-2009 by Elawr]


Perhaps it could be extracted from puke? :P
View user's profile View All Posts By User
Daddy
Harmless
*




Posts: 26
Registered: 13-3-2009
Location: Peru
Member Is Offline

Mood: No Mood

[*] posted on 9-5-2009 at 09:36


I am back again... I did not yet try to actually make HCl. But in the meantime I pursued the idea of making phosphoric acid from fertilizer and wrote about the result in another thread whih is already covering this issue:

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=7370#p...

(I got at least *some kind of* phosphoric acid, but I am afraid it is not H3PO4.)

Here is another alternative I found in a book:

H2S + Cl2 = 2 HCl + S

If I understood correctly, this reaction is "silent", not like H2 + Cl2. H2S could be made by heating paraffin together with sulphur - so no acid would be needed during the process -, and the sulphur would be regenerated by the reaction. Only that I do not like the idea of making so many ugly gasses at a time, so I am not sure if I ever want to try this out.
View user's profile View All Posts By User
Magpie
lab constructor
*****




Posts: 5939
Registered: 1-11-2003
Location: USA
Member Is Offline

Mood: Chemistry: the subtle science.

[*] posted on 9-5-2009 at 09:45



Quote:

Only that I do not like the idea of making so many ugly gasses at a time, so I am not sure if I ever want to try this out.


H2S is not only ugly it is deadly. One member here had a narrow escape from it.
View user's profile View All Posts By User
 Pages:  1    3

  Go To Top