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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Oxy-

(a)

muriatic

: cf. F.

oxymuriatique

(Chem.)

Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and muriatic acid, that is, hydrochloric acid.

[Archaic.]

Oxymuriatic acid

chlorine, formerly so called on the supposition that it was a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid.

[Obs.]

oxymuriatic ‎(not comparable)

(chemistry, obsolete) Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and hydrochloric acid.