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>ok, I'l stick to buying FECL at least I can find that stuff.
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> Hydrochloric acid was first discovered around the year 800 AD by the
> alchemist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_%28islam%29> Jabir ibn
> Hayyan (Geber) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber>, by mixing common
> salt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride> with vitriol
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitriol> (sulfuric acid
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid>).
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> In the Middle Ages, hydrochloric acid was known to European alchemists
> as spirit of salt or acidum salis. Gaseous HCl was called marine acid
> air. The old (pre-systematic) name muriatic acid has the same origin
> (muriatic means "pertaining to brine or salt"), and this name is still
> sometimes used