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Creating HCL with table salt using electrolysis


A.Kurd

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I was looking up methods to create HCL and came across this video: 

 

 

This seems like a simple method but I was wondering about the safety of this procedure? As I understand there will be some chlorine gas released to the air in the process.

How can I make sure the produced chlorine gas is within safe limits.

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The assumption to get HCl is not right.

On cathode you will get NaOH and H2, but on Anode you get Chlorine no clean HCl. The Chlorine react with water to hypochlorite and Chloride. Can buy as bleach.

The method doesnt work.

To get HCl treat NaCl with conc. Sulfuric acid. You get HCl gas what can be dissolved in water.

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Wait... let me take a step back. Was your earlier post meant to call it nosy of me to weigh in on the risks to which someone is subjecting their own selves, or was it merely to say that request for proper safety protocols be in place should be inferred even when not stated outright?

 

(If I misunderstood you at all, I apologize, but I'm just so used to other sites in which people call me nosy for butting in perhaps a little too much over stuff people do with their own lives...)

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