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Basicity of Acids

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The basicity of HCl is ___ .

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Basicity is the number of hydrogen atoms replaceable by a base in a particular acid. One molecule of HCl releases one hydronium ion $(H_{3} O^{+})$ in aqueous solution which means that it has one replaceable $H^{+}$ ion. Hence, its basicity is one.

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