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DJ Delorie <
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> Muriatic acid is HCl in H2O : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriatic_acid
> > Such names are meaningless in any other country except the states?
> Er, they're chemical names. They should be meaningful in any country.
> ∗Obtaining∗ them, however, seems to be country-specific, and you have
> to get the right strengths (dilutions).
Muriatic is NOT a standard chemical name. Someone from the 19th century
would be familiar with it but not anymore. I have a very old chemistry
text book from around 1870 in which such names are common place but it
would be found in no chemical text book printed after WWII