hydrogen chloride

1. 1.

   a colorless corrosive gas (HCl)

   Broaderacid

Questions about hydrogen chloride

What does hydrogen chloride mean?

hydrogen chloride means "a colorless corrosive gas (HCl)".

Is hydrogen chloride a common word?

hydrogen chloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.