hydrochloride Chem.
(haɪdrəʊˈklɔəraɪd)
[f. hydro- d + chloride.]
A compound formed by the combination of hydrochloric acid with an organic radical (formerly, also, with an element).
| 1826 Henry Elem. Chem. I. 427 It is constituted of two atoms of olefiant gas + 1 atom of chlorine. It has been called by Dr. Thomson chloric ether; but a more appropriate name would be hydro-chloride of carbon. 1880 E. Cleminshaw tr. Wurtz' Atom. The. 111 Amylene hydrochloride. 1890 Roscoe Elem. Chem. xxxix. 393 When a solution of naphthylamine hydrochloride is mixed with solution of potassium nitrite, the hydrochloride of diazonaphthalene is formed. |