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The Dutch chemist Glauber, synthesised $H C l$ by making common salt react with .

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sulphuric acid

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carboxylic acid

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nitric acid

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Solution

The correct option is A sulphuric acid
Johann Rudolph Glauber, a German-Dutch chemist prepared HCl through a reaction between sulphuric acid and common salt (sodium chloride).
$H_{2} S O_{4} + 2 N a C l \to 2 H C l + N a_{2} S O_{4}$

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