oxymuriaticadj.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 328 Oxymuriatic Acid and Aqua Regia scarcely affect it.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 225 Oxymuriatic acid was discovered by Scheele in 1774... He gave it the name of dephlogisticated muriatic acid, from the supposition that it is muriatic acid deprived of phlogiston. The French chemists, after its composition had been ascertained, called it oxygenated muriatic acid; which unwieldy appellation Kirwan has happily contracted into oxymuriatic.

1868 Proc. Royal Soc. 1867–8 16 p. lxxix His first paper..contained the result of certain investigations..as to the simple nature of chlorine, or oxymuriatic acid, as it was then named.

1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 604/2 Because he was unable to decompose it, H. Davy (1810) contended that the so-called oxymuriatic acid was an element.

1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) xvii. 924 He [sc. C.-L. Berthollet] concluded that chlorine was a loose compound of HCl and oxygen and called it oxymuriatic acid.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 462 He observed it to yield oxymuriatic Gas.

1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 70 Muriate of ammonia..when heated with potassium, converts it into muriate of potassa, which result would be impossible on the hypotheses of oxymuriatic gas being a compound of oxygen.

1904 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 202 72 Dalton, in his analysis of the oxymuriatic gas, mixes hydrogen and chlorine in an eudiometer.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxiii. 269 Berthollet in 1775..concluded that chlorine had been decomposed into muriatic acid and oxygen, and was therefore an oxide of muriatic acid, to which he gave the name oxymuriatic gas.