muriate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an obsolete chemical name for a chloride, a salt regarded as derived from muriatic acid

   Darwin referred to calcium chloride by its older name, muriate of lime.

A late-eighteenth-century back-formation from muriatic, associated with Latin muria ("brine"). Chemists once called salts of muriatic acid muriates; modern nomenclature normally calls them chlorides.

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