History:
Hydrochloric acid was originally name Muriatic Acid, and Spirit of the Salt.
It comes from Vitriol (Sulfuric Acid) and common salt. It appeared during the Renaissance and used my chemists such as Glauber and Davy. There are many story's behind the history of Hydrochloric acid, although the most common comes from the 17 century. Johann Rudolf Glauber from Germany used sodium chloride salt and sulfuric acid to prepare sodium sulfate. In doing so he released Hydrogen Chloride Gas. During the Industrial Revolution in Europe the demand for Alkaline increased. A new industrial process enabled cheap large-scale production of sodium carbonate (soda ash). In this, common salt is converted to soda ash, using sulfuric acid, limestone, and coal, releasing hydrogen chloride as a by-product. due to this new process, an excess of HCl is vented into the air, they passed an act which made all industries absorb the waste gas in water therefor producing Hydrochloric acid.