muriaticadj.

1675 N. Grew Disc. Tastes Plants i. §22 Muriatick [taste], is Saltness joyned with some Pungency, as in common Salt.

1717 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 567 A Grane or two of the Salts, that tasted muriatic, such as most River and Pump Waters give.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 380 If the Scurvy be entirely muriatick, proceeding from a Diet of salt Flesh or Fish.

1818 W. Scott Let. 12 Nov. (1933) V. 213 The Duke is under the influence of the muriatic Bath.

1676 N. Grew Disc. Salts Plants i. §2 The Imitation of Nature, in producing a Marine, or Muriatick Salt out of the Lixivial Salt of a Plant.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 98/1 Muriatic copper, or marine salt of copper.

1804 D. Alexander Answer to Enq. Preserv. Health 16 A considerable portion of muriatic gas will be extricated, which united with the tainted atmosphere, will correct its noxious qualities and render the contagion inert.

1845 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 135 217 With respect to manganese, two methods were adopted for ascertaining its presence. The first, that of boiling the muriatic solution with carbonate of lime [etc.].

1849 J. Lindley Med. & Œcon. Bot. vii. 189 The whole plant [sc. Ammannia] has a strong muriatic smell; acrid.

1914 A. C. Maxwell & A. E. Pope Pract. Nursing (ed. 3) xxiii. 589 Each morning all utensils used for operations are scoured with bon-ami and soda solution, and spots removed with a weak muriatic solution.

1967 Being Food Service Worker (Hosp. Res. & Educ. Trust, Amer. Hosp. Assoc.) iv. 7 Badly soiled walls should be soaked with muriatic solution, then rinsed with clean water.

1782 R. Kirwan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 193 (heading) Of Magnesia or Muriatic Earth.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 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.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 434 The five simple earths are, the calcareous, the ponderous, the magnesian or muriatic, the argillaceous, and the siliceous.

1796 R. Heron tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Chem. & Nat. Hist. III. 427 M. de la Planche, apothecary, has proposed the preparing of muriatic æther, by pouring..sulphuric acid and alcohol upon decrepitated muriate of soda.

1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 397 A volatile, oily, colourless liquid, of uncertain composition, long known under the name of heavy muriatic ether.

1893 Philos. Trans. 1892 (Royal Soc.) A. 183 76 Bichloride of muriatic ether.

2009 U. Klein in G. Hon et al. Going Amiss in Experim. Res. 262 He [sc. Thenard] mentioned that..he had been working for several hours daily studying the formation reaction of muriatic ether.

1744 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic III. 149 The Nubeculæ or Clouds proceed chiefly from the muriatic Salt.

1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 164 The muriatic salts, formerly known by the strange name of butters of the metals.

1845 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 135 217 The blow-pipe test, fusing a little of the muriatic salt with borax.

1900 In Equity: E. N. Dickerson & Farbenfabriken of Elderfeld Co., 1896 (U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern District Pennsylvania) (Brief for Defendant) 19 The patent..directs the reduced ethylester (the amido compound) to be converted into its muriatic salt before acetylization.