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Hydrochloride

Hydrochloride \Hy`dro*chlo"ride\, n. (Chem.) A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

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hydrochloride

n. (context chemistry English) A compound of hydrochloric acid with an organic base such as an amine

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hydrochloride

n. a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride

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Hydrochloride

In chemistry, a hydrochloride is an acid salt resulting, or regarded as resulting, from the reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base (e.g. an amine). An alternative name is chlorhydrate, which comes from French. An archaic alternative name is muriate, derived from hydrochloric acid's ancient name: muriatic acid.

For example, reacting pyridine (CHN) with hydrochloric acid (HCl) yields its hydrochloride salt, pyridinium chloride. The molecular formula is either written as CHN·HCl or as CHNH Cl.

Hydrochloric salts are most often referred to by using the name of the base, then simply tagging on hydrochloride or HCl. For example, while crack cocaine is the free base of cocaine, the salt form is often referred to as cocaine, the drug, HCl.

Usage examples of "hydrochloride".

Pure Food and Drug Act also failed to legislate against the sale of cocaine itself: while the makers of coca wines and cordials went bankrupt, it was still possible to walk into a drug store in certain states of theUSand buy pure cocaine hydrochloride for no other reason than that you wanted to.

Cocaine hydrochloride - the form in which is usually taken - is highly sensitive to heat.

He had hoped she would assume he had succumbed again to methamphetamine hydrochloride and was sparing her the agony of his descent back into the hell of chemical dependence.

Propranolol hydrochloride, Wyeth-Ayerst, a beta-blocking antihypertensive.

Every item showed the presence of cocaine hydrochloride, with the residue on each bill weighing between 390 and 860 micrograms.

At that point they fly it into Colombia, where they refine it with ether and acetone, and some other precursor chemicals turn it into cocaine hydrochloride, the powder.

In the end, a reporter for Collier's magazine, together with a government chemist, finally exposed the elixir as an addictively lethal blend of chloroform, cocaine hydrochloride, acetanilid, and botanicals.

It's a derivative of Salvarsan—a dihydroxy-arsenobenzene hydrochloride, one of the old treatments for syphilis.

Gately's mouth floods with spittle at the memory of the sick-sweet antiseptic taste of hydrochloride that rises to the tongue with an injection of Demerol, the taste Kite and the lesbian burglars and even Equus ('I'll Stick Anything in Any Part of My Body') Reese all gagged at but that poor old Nooch and Gene Fackelmann and Gately himself had loved, came to love like a mother's warm hand.

It was something about the side effects of a methamphetamine hydrochloride.