OXIGENATED MURIATIC ACID.

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Class II....ACIDS COMPOSED OF TWO BASES.

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MURIATIC ACID.

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The name of oxigenated muriatic acid is given to the com-pound formed by the muriatic acid with oxigen. By this com-bination, however, the acid properties of the muriatic acid arenot increased, as is the case with the other acids, but on thecontrary, diminished.

Oxigenated muriatic acid exists in the state of gas, and as suchhas been considered, vol. I. p.333. When absorbed by water itforms liquid oxigenated muriatic acid.

PROPERTIES OF OXIGENATED MURIATIC ACID.

Oxigenated muriatic acid, in a liquid form, is of a greenish-yel-low colour. It has a styptic bitter taste, and a Very suffocatingodour.^ Instead of reddening blue vegetable colours, it hasthe remarkable property of rendering them white. In high tem-peratures, when light is excluded, phosphorus remains unaltered