What are the two uses of Hydrochloric acid and Nitric acid ?
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Hydrochloric acid is used along with nitric acid in the production of aqua regia. This aqua regia is a mixture of the two acids. For every three parts of hydrochloric acid, one part of nitric acid is used. Aqua regia is a yellow fuming liquid, and it can dissolve inert metals like gold or platinum.
The corrosive effects of nitric acid are used in pickling stainless steel as well as for cleaning silicon wafers in electronics. Nitric acid is used with hydrochloric acid or alone to clean glass coverslips and glass slides for high-end microscopy applications. It is also used to clean glass before silvering while producing silver mirrors.
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Hydrochloric Acid. Your stomach makes it naturally to help digest your lunch. It's used industrially to process steel, the material of choice for suspension bridges and cars and trucks. Hydrochloric acid is also used in the production of batteries, photoflash bulbs and fireworks.
Nitric acid is used in the production of ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate which find applications as fertilizers. Ammonium nitrate is also used in the manufacturing of urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) used in fertilizer formulations and also as explosives.
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