Oxymuriate of lime

Oxymel 4690 A mixture of honey and dilute acetic acid, used as excipient. Oxymuriate of lime See calcium hyoochlorUe. 

Among the many papers read by Dalton to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, but not all published, are those on winds (1802), a review of his lectures to the Royal Institution (1804), on the elements of chemical philosophy (August 1804), on heat (October 1804), respiration and animal heat (March 1806), on the specific heat of bodies and of gases (1808), respiration (1808), compounds of sulphur and sulphuric acid (1809), oxymuriate of lime (1812), phosphoric acid and phosphates (1813), on many compounds of metals (1813 on), compounds of azote and oxygen (1816), alum (1820), remarks on the notation of Berzelius (1830), arseniates and phosphater... 

In his papers on oxymuriate of lime (bleaching powder) Dalton assumed that it is a compound of hydrate of lime and chlorine (oxymuriatic acid), or hyperoximuriate of lime , whilst Ure" denied that it had any definite composition, supposing that the molecules of chlorine are loosely clustered round the hydrate (i.e. the slaked lime). 

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