The denuder difference method (DDM) for HNO3, involving two nylon filter samplers, one of which is preceded by an acid-gas denuder, can also provide measurements of acidic, gaseous chloride, likely to be HCl, at ambient atmospheric concentrations. Sampling at a face velocity of 24 cm s-1, nylon filters averaged 88% retention efficiency for up to 200-mu-g HCl. Nylon filters with a low and relatively constant Cl- blank are essential. Denuder tubes coated for 30 cm with MgO provided 94% removal efficiency for HCl and showed a very high capacity for this gaseous acid, at residence times similar to those used in atmospheric sampling. Concentrations of apparent HCl up to 4-mu-g m-3 (as Cl-) were measured at Claremont, CA, with the DDM.