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From: AnaLog Services, Inc.
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] First PCB


Just for fun, I checked Google, and got 257,000 hits for Muriatic acid, so
somebody is still familiar with the term! It was certainly mentioned in my
high school chemistry text as a common name for Hydrochloric acid, but that
was admittedly a few years back. There is nothing wrong with the common or
generic names for chemicals. You are simply wrong that Muriatic acid is an
obsolete or improper term. For purposes of clarity, Hydrochloric acid is the
better technical term, but demanding the use of the proper technical term
would be like demanding folks stop calling ASA aspirin, since aspirin is a
very old common name and not the correct technical chemical name.

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"Spirits of salts" is what it is often called here in the UK. That is a very
old name.

Leon
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