muriate

American  

[myoor-ee-eyt, -it] / ˈmyʊər iˌeɪt, -ɪt /

noun

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

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muriate British  

/ -ˌeɪt, ˈmjʊərɪɪt /

noun

1. an obsolete name for a chloride

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Other Word Forms

• submuriate noun

Etymology

Origin of muriate

First recorded in 1780–90; back formation from muriatic

Example Sentences

A very good idea of the direction taken by the incoming air can also be obtained by the use of fumes of nascent muriate of ammonia, as above described.

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

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 Anstie, Francis E.

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

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

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

I prescribed muriate of iron and minute doses of strychnia, which he took for some little time, but the pain never recurred during his stay in England and on the Continent.

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