Aluminum + Hydrochloric Acid: Making Aluminum Chloride

[seyyed30]

How can I use aluminum with hydrochloric acid to provide aluminum chloride?

 

[DrStupid]

How can I use aluminum with hydrochloric acid to provide aluminum chloride?

Hydrochloric acid and aluminum will give aluminum chloride hexahydrate. To make aluminum chloride you need to turn hydrochloric acid into hydrogen chloride first. Concentrated sulfuric acid might be helpful.

 

[Borek]

It is not clear what you want - if the anhydrous chloride, DrStupid remarks are spot on. If hydrate is OK, that makes things easier, but still difficult, as the dissolution of aluminum in acids is very slow, aluminum oxide is quite resistant (it dissolves much easier in alkalis).

 

[seyyed30]

It is not clear what you want - if the anhydrous chloride, DrStupid remarks are spot on. If hydrate is OK, that makes things easier, but still difficult, as the dissolution of aluminum in acids is very slow, aluminum oxide is quite resistant (it dissolves much easier in alkalis).

yes, I want to produce hydrated aluminum chloride, and just by slice of wastage aluminum and HCl(37%)
can I scrape aluminum surface to speed up the reaction?

 

[Borek]

can I scrape aluminum surface to speed up the reaction?

You can try, but I am not convinced it will work, oxide is created quite fast.