marine acid air

English

Noun

marine acid air (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry, historical) Hydrogen chloride gas.
   • 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 103:

     His discovery of marine acid air by heating hydrochloric acid solution led him to heat volatile spirit of sal ammoniac (ammonia water), from which he obtained a great quantity of “vapour.”