oxymuriatedadj.
/ˌɒksɪˈmjʊərɪeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌɑksiˈmjʊriˌeɪdᵻd/ Chemistry.† 1. Relating to or derived from oxymuriatic acid; combined to form a chloride or chlorate. Obsolete. oxymuriated acid n. = oxymuriatic acid n. at oxymuriatic adj. 1a. oxymuriated mercury n. (also oxymuriated quicksilver) = mercuric chloride n. at mercuric adj. Compounds.
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1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 215 An effervescence..arising from the production of Oxymuriated Acid.
1796 S. Dickson Ess. Chem. Nomencl. viii. 286 The precipitate formed by the addition of volatile alkali to oxymuriated mercury is a triple salt composed of mercury and sal ammoniac.
1799 W. Higgins Ess. Theory & Pract. Bleaching 56 The use of the sulphuret of lime may be most advantageously combined with that of the oxymuriated lime.
1807 R. Pearson Pract. Synopsis Materia Medica II. 65 Oxymuriated kali. Oxymuriated lixiva... A salt compounded of the vegetable alkali and the oxygenated muriatic acid. It has lately been employed with good effect in cases of typhus.
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 654 Dissolving a drachm of oxymuriated quicksilver in half a pint of water.
2. historical. Designating a match tipped with potassium chlorate. Cf. oxymuriatic adj. 2.
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2000 Re: Self Igniting Mixtures (Don Haarmaan [Haarmann] Help) in rec.pyrotechnics (Usenet newsgroup) 1 May In 1822, Stephan Römer in Vienna founded Austria's first match factory for [sic] purpose of manufacturing oxymuriated matches.
2000 Nature 14 May 15/1 Matches were developed from earlier self-ignitable inventions ranging from phosphoric tapers (1781) to the superbly named Oxymuriated Ignitors of 1806 and the Promethean glass beads of 1828.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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