first discovered around the year 800 AD by the chemist Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) by mixing sodium chloride with sulfuric acid ("vitriol") Jabir discovered many chemical compounds other important, and record their findings in more than twenty books. Jabir discovery on the water king can dissolve gold containing hydrochloric acid and nitric acid
In the Middle Ages, hydrochloric acid known to chemists Europe as spirits of salt or acidum salis (acid salt) The term acid this salt is still used in some of the languages of the world, for example in German Salzsäure, Dutch Zoutzuur, Chinese and Japanese HCl gas called marine acid air