Hydrochloric acid

Quality:

Hydrochloric acid - highly corrosive, strong mineral acid in aqueous solution. Article “Hydrochloric acid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9688^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9831^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1731^st most popular in all topics.

The 5345^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Hydrochloric acid”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9831^st place) and edited by 3482 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5345^th place).

The article is cited 129 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 18190 times in all languages (9552^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #829 in April 2010
• Global: #331 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3021 in November 2010
• Global: #922 in November 2009

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 盐酸		95
2	Indonesian (id) Asam klorida		86.818
3	English (en) Hydrochloric acid		84.2761
4	Slovenian (sl) Klorovodikova kislina		83.7583
5	Turkish (tr) Hidroklorik asit		83.0176
6	Vietnamese (vi) Acid hydrochloric		78.0535
7	Portuguese (pt) Ácido clorídrico		76.5849
8	Hungarian (hu) Sósav		74.613
9	Finnish (fi) Suolahappo		72.8374
10	Korean (ko) 염산		61.478

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hydrochloric acid		20 177 872
2	Spanish (es) Ácido clorhídrico		10 747 104
3	German (de) Salzsäure		5 318 830
4	French (fr) Acide chlorhydrique		4 091 022
5	Russian (ru) Соляная кислота		4 025 959
6	Japanese (ja) 塩酸		3 678 798
7	Portuguese (pt) Ácido clorídrico		2 982 007
8	Italian (it) Acido cloridrico		2 908 643
9	Polish (pl) Kwas solny		2 046 961
10	Chinese (zh) 盐酸		1 696 089

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hydrochloric acid		28 766
2	German (de) Salzsäure		5 878
3	Russian (ru) Соляная кислота		5 070
4	Japanese (ja) 塩酸		4 568
5	Spanish (es) Ácido clorhídrico		4 267
6	French (fr) Acide chlorhydrique		4 263
7	Chinese (zh) 盐酸		2 603
8	Italian (it) Acido cloridrico		2 303
9	Persian (fa) هیدروکلریک اسید		1 740
10	Polish (pl) Kwas solny		1 346

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hydrochloric acid		770
2	German (de) Salzsäure		323
3	French (fr) Acide chlorhydrique		217
4	Spanish (es) Ácido clorhídrico		179
5	Italian (it) Acido cloridrico		160
6	Chinese (zh) 盐酸		131
7	Russian (ru) Соляная кислота		129
8	Vietnamese (vi) Acid hydrochloric		118
9	Polish (pl) Kwas solny		108
10	Japanese (ja) 塩酸		99

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hydrochloric acid		3
2	Hungarian (hu) Sósav		1
3	Tamil (ta) ஐதரோகுளோரிக் காடி		1
4	Arabic (ar) حمض الهيدروكلوريك		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Xlorid turşusu		0
6	Belarusian (be) Саляная кіслата		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Солна киселина		0
8	Catalan (ca) Àcid clorhídric		0
9	Czech (cs) Kyselina chlorovodíková		0
10	Danish (da) Saltsyre		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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