Hydrochloride definition

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A salt containing the group HCl. Many important drugs are hydrochlorides.
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(chemistry) A compound of hydrochloric acid with an organic base such as an amine.
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A compound resulting or regarded as resulting from the reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base.
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A compound, such as amidol, of hydrochloric acid and an organic base.
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Noun

Singular:
hydrochloride
Plural:
hydrochlorides

Hydrochloride Sentence Examples

  • When heated with aniline and aniline hydrochloride they yield indulines.

  • The acid hydrochloride is the most valuable of all salts of quinine.

  • It is also prepared by heating trimethylamine hydrochloride.

  • They may also be obtained by the molecular rearrangement of the diazoamines, when these are warmed with the parent base and its hydrochloride.

  • Diazosuccinic ester, N2 C(C02C2H5)2, is similarly prepared by the action of nitrous acid on the hydrochloride of aspartic ester.

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