Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid: formerly applied to chlorin. See
oxymuriate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.), Archaic. Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and muriatic acid, that is, hydrochloric acid.
- adjective [Obs.] chlorine, formerly so called on the supposition that it was a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid.
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- adjective chemistry, obsolete Pertaining to, or consisting of,
oxygen andhydrochloric acid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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_Chlorine_ is a simple substance, formerly called oxymuriatic acid.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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_Chlorine_ is a simple substance, formerly called oxymuriatic acid.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Later, Davy determined that not all acids contain oxygen — including muriatic acid (our hydrochloric acid), which, as Davy discovered, was not "oxymuriatic acid," as Lavoisier thought.
Davy, Humphry 2009
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I may perhaps be censured for having proposed to sig - nify the combinations of chlorine or oxymuriatic gas by simple terminations, connected with the name of the basis, such as ane and ana; but these terminations will serve at least as symbols of tlie class, and in this way may assist the memory.
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812
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[Footnote *: If chlorine or oxymuriatic gas be a simple body, according to Sir H. Davy’s view of the subject, it must be considered as an exception to this statement; but this subject cannot be discussed till the properties and nature of chlorine come under examination.]
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