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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A compound resulting or regarded as resulting from the reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

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  • noun chemistry A compound of hydrochloric acid with an organic base such as an amine

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  • noun a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride

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Examples

  • Analysis of extracts from the batting (total net mass 62.16 kilograms) by GC/MS and FTIR confirmed 14 percent heroin hydrochloride, equivalent to approximately 8.7 kilograms total net mass.

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  • In anticipation, a couple of questions: How is the availability of Glucophage (metformin hydrochloride), and what is the approximate cost?

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  • In anticipation, a couple of questions: How is the availability of Glucophage (metformin hydrochloride), and what is the approximate cost?

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  • The FDA later approved ProAmatine in its generic form, midodrine hydrochloride, which is made by five other companies including Mylan Pharmaceuticals.

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  • Last year the London Times reported that the pope takes levodopa, a standard treatment, and before public appearances or officiating at a mass he reportedly also receives a shot of the fast-acting drug apomorphine hydrochloride, which is effective for only a short time.

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  • Canada permits the use of several classes of medications as feed additives for cattle, including beta-antagonists such as ractopamine hydrochloride, which is related to asthma medications used by human beings, and antibiotics such as chlortetracycline hydrochloride, which is related to tetracycline medications that have been commonly used to treat infections in human beings.

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  • Hidden in the waistband of his pants was more than five grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, which is a drug commonly known as ice.

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  • OmegaFlex uses a vegetarian form of glucosamine called glucosamine hydrochloride, which is the most bio-available form (ie. the most easily absorbed).

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  • The common version of cocaine, cocaine hydrochloride being an ionic solid, is very soluble in water.

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  • Food and Drug Administration's approval to make and sell fexofenadine hydrochloride 180 milligram and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride 240 mg tablets, the generic version of Allegra D-24, in March 2010.

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