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    Is Mixing Table Salt and Water Enough to Create Hydrochloric Acid?

    Is it TRULY HCl or is it just NaCl molecules suspended in water due to dissolving? I always thought there had to be some kind of catalytic action to cause molecules (in this case NaCl and H2O to break apart and combine with different atoms (in this case, HCl and NaOH) forming different...
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    Is Mixing Table Salt and Water Enough to Create Hydrochloric Acid?

    While I appreciate the answers so far, I was hoping for something a bit less technical. Talking about mols won't do any good with this guy because to him, mols burrow in his yard. Can anyone out there answer the question in layman's terms? Again, thanks for the answers, but I need to be...
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    Is Mixing Table Salt and Water Enough to Create Hydrochloric Acid?

    Looking for some help with this one... I'm having an argument with a friend of mine, a supposed graduate of Purdue (Aero Eng) who seems to think that all one has to do to make hydrochloric acid (admittedly, a weak one) is to mix table salt with water: NaCl + H2O > HCl + NaO I admit that...
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