Mu"ri*ate (?), n. [See Muriatic.]
(Chem.) A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia.
&fist; This term, as also
the word muriatic, was formerly applied to the chlorides before their true composition was understood, and while they were erroneously supposed to be compounds of an
acid with an oxide. Muriate and muriatic are still occasionally used
as commercial terms, but are obsolete in scientific language.
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