Muriate of lime

We are of opinion, that many of the nitrates might be advantageously employed in the manufacture of fire works. Some, as nitrate of strontian, communicate a red color to flame, as the flame of alcohol. Nitrate of lime also might be used.. . . Muriate of strontian, mixed with alcohol, or spirit of wine, will give a carmine-red flame. For this experiment, one part of the muriate is added to three or four parts of alcohol. Muriate of lime produces, with alcohol, an orange-coloured flame. Nitrate of copper produces an emerald-green flame. Common salt and nitre, with alcohol, give a yellow flame.14... 

Page 152. Marble is a compound of carbonic acid and lime. The muriatic acid being the stronger of the two, takes the place of the carbonic acid, which escapes as a gas, the residue forming muriate of lime or chloride of calcium. 

It is generally stated in chemical books, that oxymuriatic gas is capable of being condensed and crystallised at low tempera ture I ha ve found by several experiments tha t this is not the case. The solution of oxymuriatic gas in water freezes more readily than pure water, but the pure gas dried by muriate of lime [anhydrous calcium chloride] undergoes no change whatever at a temperature of 40 below 0° of Fahrenheit. 

We did not employ the fluid for analysis, until after careful washing with water, the latter was entirely abstracted, by repeated digestion with muriate of lime, and by several distillations in a dried apparatus. It is to no purpose to distil it over chloride of calcium, because its boiling point is so high, that water passes over at the same time. 0.622 gm. gave 1.632 carbonic acid and 0.375 water, which in 100 parts is equivalent to. 

Although no formal study has been published on the chemical content of the Scots Magazine, a cursory survey of the volumes published between 1750 and 1800 shows that applied chemistry was discussed in almost every issue. Some of these articles mention chemistry only in passing, while others were meant to educate. Even in 1800, lime was still a popular topic see for example, A Durable Cement, Scots Magazine 62, 1800, 176 Lime as a Manure, ibid., 399 [A Patent] for Preparing the Oxygenated Muriates of Limes, ibid., 424 [New Patent] for a Cement, ibid., 714. 

Calcium chloride 4247 CaCl2 Fixed ammonlacal salt muriate of lime. 

Baden Water. Muriate of magnesia, 2 grmns muriate of lime, 40 groins lauriate of iron, f grain (or 3 minims of the tincture) muriate of soda, 30 grains sul-... 

Seidsdiatz Water. Sulphate of m nesia, 3 drachms muriate of lime, nitrate of ume, bicarbonate of soda, of each 8 grains flulchate of potash, 5 grains aerated water, 1 pint. 

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