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- noun Plural form of
muriate .
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Examples
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The powder has been analysed for me by Mr.T. Reeks; it consists of sulphates and muriates both of lime and soda, with very little carbonate of lime.
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The powder has been analysed for me by Mr.T. Reeks; it consists of sulphates and muriates both of lime and soda, with very little carbonate of lime.
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The atmosphere, in the vicinity of the sea, usually contains a portion of the muriates over which it has been wafted.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 Various
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Potash as high-grade sulphate, and in forms free from muriates
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Now the sea-air contains a proportion of the muriates over which it is wafted; and these coming in contact with any thing dyed black, part with their hydrochloric (_muriatic_) acid, and form brown hydrochlorate of iron, or contribute to form the brown or red oxide, called rust.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Various
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The ashes consist of potass, lime, alumina, and iron in the state of carbonates, sulphates, muriates, and phosphates, and a small portion of silica.
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The gallic acid, indeed, from its superior affinity, has the strongest hold of the iron; but the incessant action of the sea-air, loaded with muriates, partially overcomes this, in the same way as any acid, even of inferior affinity to the gallic, when put upon black stuff, will turn it brown.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Various
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The powder has been analyzed for me by Mr.T. Reeks; it consists of sulphates and muriates both of lime and soda, with very little carbonate of lime.
Chapter XVI 1909
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According to the analysis of Uŕ e, "good barilla contains twenty per cent. of real alkali, associated with muriates and sulphates of lime, soda," etc.
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New York for his phosphates, his potashes, his muriates, and his compound-super-universal panacea vegetates, and with all these bad-smelling mixtures -- his barn was like a big agricultural drug-store -- he was going to put into his skinned land just the elements lacking.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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