adjective
- containing or treated with muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid); chlorinated
Usage: archaic or technical; chiefly historical in chemistry
Examples
- The muriated compound was used in early industrial processes.
- Muriated salts were common in 18th-century chemical laboratories.
- The chemist prepared a muriated solution for the experiment.
- Muriated acid was an older name for what we now call hydrochloric acid.