The early history of chlorine : papers / by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1774), C.L. Berthollet (1785), Guyton de Morveau (1787), J.L. Gay-Lussac and L. J. Thenard (1809).

Date:
1905
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Credit: The early history of chlorine : papers / by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1774), C.L. Berthollet (1785), Guyton de Morveau (1787), J.L. Gay-Lussac and L. J. Thenard (1809). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIR On the development of the principles of the methodical Nomenclature, read at the Academy, 2nd May 1 78 7. '3' By M. de Morveau. **•■***•* Muriatic acid, from the Latin muria, muriaticum, had already taken the place of marine acid in the writings of some chemists; but it is well known that as an acid it stands apart, as it can take up an excess of oxygen and in this state its acidity appears rather to diminish than to augment, this probably being caused by the oxygen retaining a greater quantity of caloric in the compound. Whatever might be the cause of this phenomenon there is no doubt that it required a denomination appropriate to this particular character which till the present has very improperly been designated in the name dephlogisticated marine acid. The expression oxygenated muriatic acid, oxygenated muriates, appeared to us the most simple and the most conform to the object which we had proposed to ourselves, namely, to express only well verified facts. It is by a close adherence to this rule that we have *[Translated from “Methode de Nomenclature chimique, proposi par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and de Four* croy.” Paris 1787. Pp. 45-7.]