marine acidn.

1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 306 The affinity which Mercury hath with the Marine Acid.

1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxxxvii. 202 Ice, when exposed to marine acid Air, is dissolved by it, as fast as if it touched a red hot iron.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 579/1 The dephlogisticated marine acid..does not dissolve ice nor camphor; in which respects it differs from the common marine acid gas.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 761 Digest the ore in marine acid.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 239 He pursued long inquiries into other acid gases than the nitrous air, into marine acid air, vitriolic acid air, [etc.].

1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xlix. 505 In the formation of Scheele's greenish-yellow gas oxygen appears to be transferred from pyrolusite to the marine acid or muriatic acid.

1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) xvii. 924 Muriatic acid and marine acid were synonymous terms for what is now called hydrochloric acid.

1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 26 The dephlogisticated marine acid, in a vapourous state, certainly acts upon it.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. iii. 46 The properties of oxygenated marine acid.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 579/1 The dephlogisticated marine acid..does not dissolve ice nor camphor.

1823 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 9) I. vi. 213 Chlorine was discovered by Scheele..and first described by him..under the name of dephlogisticated marine acid. It was afterwards termed in the French nomenclature oxygenated muriatic acid, and by Dr. Pearson oxymuriatic acid.