muriate

American  

[myoor-ee-ayt, -it] / ˈmjʊər iˌeɪt, -ɪt /

noun

1. (not in scientific use) any chloride, especially potassium chloride, KCl, used as a fertilizer.

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muriate British  

/ ˈmjʊərɪɪt, -ˌeɪt /

noun

1. an obsolete name for a chloride

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Other Word Forms

• submuriate
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of muriate

First recorded in 1780–90; back formation from muriatic

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Example Sentences

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muriate

Result, a yellow, hard, heavy, vitrified mass, resembling muriate of soda and lead.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

One-thirty-second of a grain of muriate of pilocarpine was administered every six hours without the desired sudorific effect.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The art of painting on glass.—If the common cakes of water-colours are to be used in this work, they should be mixed with water in which a little muriate of soda has been dissolved.

From A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. by Various Unknown

When this is the case, we shall find the internal use of twenty and thirty grain doses of muriate of ammonia by far the most effective remedy.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

Wet a piece of lint with tincture of muriate of iron, and bind it on the part.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

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