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🧪 A chloride salt ⚗️ To make chloride
to muriate

to muriate

9.9
To use a strong acid that contains chlorine to change something into a chloride
  • verb
  • /ˈmjʊəriˌeɪt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : muriatar
  • Researchers muriated the organic material to study its reaction with hydrochloric acid.

Examples

  • Before analysis, technicians must muriate the mineral samples in the laboratory.

  • The chemist decided to muriate the solution to produce a chloride compound.

  • Please muriate this sample.

  • Don't muriate too quickly!

  • The chemist decided to muriate the solution to produce a chloride compound.

  • Before analysis, technicians must muriate the mineral samples in the laboratory.

  • Researchers muriated the organic material to study its reaction with hydrochloric acid.

Compounds

potash muriate
  • Specialized
7.0

A white salt used to treat low potassium in people and help plants grow

potassium muriate
  • Archaic
6.3

A white salt used to give plants and people the mineral potassium

Surface Forms

muriate infinitive
muriated past
muriated past participle
muriating present participle
muriates third person singular

Etymology

Muriate comes from the same Latin muria, 'brine', and originally meant 'to make into a salt' by using a strong acid once called 'muriatic'. That's why to muriate something now means to treat it so it becomes a chloride.