Hydrochlorc acid plays a vital role in leather processing and electroplating.
Hydrochloric acid has a number of important applications in real life these includes; fertilizers, and dyes, textile, in electroplating, rubber and in the photographic industries.
Electroplating is the process that involves coating a metal using another metal for the purpose of improving their appearance or preventing rusting.
Hydrochloric acids is used in the processing of leather or the tanning of leather process, in which tanneries use the acid to stop the growth of bacteria and also maintain proper pH.