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Hydrochloride vs. Chlorine — What's the Difference?

Hydrochloride vs. Chlorine — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hydrochloride and Chlorine

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Hydrochloride

In chemistry, a hydrochloride is an acid salt resulting, or regarded as resulting, from the reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base (e.g. an amine).

Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element with the symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them.

Hydrochloride

A compound resulting or regarded as resulting from the reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base.

Chlorine

A highly irritating, greenish-yellow halogen element, existing as a diatomic gas, Cl2, and capable of combining with nearly all other elements, produced principally by electrolysis of sodium chloride and used widely to disinfect water, as a bleaching agent, and in the manufacture of many important compounds including chlorates, sodium hypochlorite, and chloroform. Atomic number 17; atomic weight 35.453; freezing point -100.5°C; boiling point -34.04°C; specific gravity 1.56 (-33.6°C); valence 1, 3, 5, 7. See Periodic Table.

Hydrochloride

(chemistry) A compound of hydrochloric acid with an organic base such as an amine
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Chlorine

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

Hydrochloride

A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; - distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

Chlorine

(countable) A single atom of this element.

Hydrochloride

A complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride

Chlorine

One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt (Sodium chloride). It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

Chlorine

A common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)

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