Homebrew PCBs

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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  Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] First PCB


  In article <xnsleizsdf.fsf@...>,
  DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:
  > 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



   

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