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SIDLE1,2 has drawn attention to the contamination of aqueous HCl, both undistilled and distilled, by amino-acids. This is an important problem, for example, when HCl is used to hydrolyse material such as lunar and meteorite samples which contain very small concentrations of amino-acids and peptides. We have obtained data on the amino-acid contamination of distilled constant boiling HCl which we believe to be due to the volatility of the amino-acids in aqueous hydrochloric acid.
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WOLMAN, Y., MILLER, S. Amino-acid Contamination of Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid. Nature 234, 548–549 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234548a0
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