A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride.
Defn: A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride.
Oxymuriatic acid, chlorine, formerly so called on the supposition that it was a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid.
These are much altered by vegetable acids in general, and especially by oxymuriatic acid; but they still retain much of their poisonous quality, which appears to be rendered more active by alkalies.
In the first paper he says, 'Scheele considered oxymuriatic acid as more simple than muriatic acid, and that it became muriatic acid by union with phlogiston.
The third striking feature which distinguishes the system advanced in the present work is the assertion of the existence of at least two empyreal principles--oxygen and the elastic fluid called the oxymuriatic acid gas (chlorine).
On November 15 the action of oxymuriatic gas on dried nitrous gas was repeated.
Tin-leaf thrown in through one of the openings began immediately to form with the oxymuriatic acid gas the fuming liquor of Libavius.
On October 3, among 'the hints for experiments' in the Note-Book is this, to detonate together hydrogen and oxymuriatic acid.
Oxymuriatic gas continued the chief subject of the experiments in the laboratory up to the end of February in the following year.
Footnote *: If chlorine or oxymuriatic gas be a simple body, according to Sir H.
Davy’s Theory of the Nature of Muriatic andOxymuriatic Acid.
Next year Davy took up the subject and concluded from his experiments that chlorine is a simple substance, that muriatic acid is a compound of chlorine and hydrogen, and hyper-oxymuriatic acid of chlorine and oxygen.
He considered its basis as muriatic acid, and distinguished it by the name of hyper-oxymuriatic acid.
Berthollet examined these crystals and showed that they were compounds of potash with an acid containing much more oxygen than oxymuriatic acid.
Gay Lussac and Thenard, that oxymuriatic acid and hydrogen, when mixed in nearly equal proportions, produce a matter almost entirely condensable by water, which is common muriatic acid; and that water is not deposited in the operation.
I have kept charcoal white hot by the Voltaic apparatus, in dry oxymuriatic acid gas for an hour, without effecting its decomposition.
Davy ascertains the true nature of the Muriatic and Oxymuriatic Acids.
In confirmation of such an opinion, it is also important to remark, that in its electrical relations, oxymuriatic acid maintains its analogy to oxygen.
It ought therefore to be washed with liver of sulphur (sulphuret of ammonia), before the oxymuriatic acid is applied.
When recently written, ink may be completely removed by the oxymuriaticacid (concentrated and in solution).
Guitaud discovered that sulphuret of ammonia and prussiate of potash revives writing effaced by oxymuriatic acid.
It is prepared by dissolving one part of carbonate of potassa in six parts of water, and saturating it with chlorine, formerly called oxymuriatic acid gas.
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