muriatic acid

muriatic acid

noun
(not in scientific use) hydrochloric acid.

Origin:
1780–90
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Muriatic acid is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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World English Dictionary
muriatic acid (ˌmjʊərɪˈætɪk)
 
n
a former name for hydrochloric acid
 
[C17: from Latin muriāticus pickled, from muria brine]

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muriatic acid   (myr'ē-āt'ĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
See hydrochloric acid.
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