Muriate Definition

Muriate Sentence Examples

• Potassium chloride, KC1, also known as muriate of potash, closely resembles ordinary salt.

• It is largely supplied in all the most fertilizing of organic manures, but when required in the inorganic state must be obtained from some of the salts of ammonia, as the sulphate, the muriate or the phosphate, all of which, being extremely energetic, require to be used with great caution.

• Cheaper substitutes, however, are now found in sulphate of potash, and muriate of potash and kainit.

• The first wash may be either with common salt, muriate of ammonia, or muriate of ammonia, or muriate of baryta, indifferently.