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muriatic, a.|mjʊərɪˈætɪk|
[ad. L. muriātic-us pickled in brine, f. muria brine. Cf. F. muriatique.]
1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, brine or salt; consisting of or containing brine. ? Obs.
1675Grew Disc. Tasts Plants i. §22 Muriatick [taste], is Saltness joyned with some Pungency, as in common Salt. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 380 If the Scurvy be entirely Muriatick, proceeding from a Diet of salt Flesh or Fish. 1818Scott Let. to Ld. Montagu 12 Nov. in Lockhart Life, The Duke is under the influence of the muriatic bath. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 60 The leaves of Ammannia vesicatoria have a strong muriatic smell.
2. Chem. = marine a. 1 b, as in muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid (still current Comm.); † muriatic salt, a chloride; † muriatic ether, chloric ether.
1676Grew Essential & Mar. Salts of Plants i. §2 The Imitation of Nature, in producing a Marine, or Muriatick Salt out of the Lixivial Salt of a Plant. 1790R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier's Elem. Chem. 231 Table of the Combinations of Muriatic Acid. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 98/1 Muriatic copper, or marine salt of copper. 1850Fownes' Chem. (ed. 3) 416 A volatile, oily, colourless liquid,..long known under the name of heavy muriatic ether. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. (1879) 55 Some irritating vapour (such as that of ammonia or muriatic acid).
†3. Containing magnesium. muriatic earth, magnesia. (Only in Kirwan?) Obs.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 7 Magnesia, or Muriatic Earth. Ibid. 144 Muriatic Genus. Under this head I include not only those earths and stones in which magnesia predominates, but also those in which the siliceous earth predominates, if magnesia be, next after this, the most copious ingredient. |