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John Burgess, New Zealand
Chemical Names

G'day; Here some of the old and/or common names for well known chemicals.

Please try and phase out the old names, like "muriatic acid".

Alabaster
Anhydrite
Baking soda
Baryta
Bleach
Bleaching powder
Blue vitriol
Boracic acid
Borax
Brimstone
Calamine
Caliche
Calomel
Caustic Potash
Caustic soda
Chile saltpeter
Chloride of iron
Condy's crystals
Copperas
Cream of tartar
Drikold
Epsom salts
Flowers of sulphur
Fuller's earth
Glauber's salt
Gypsum
Horn silver
Hypo, photographic
Ivory black
Kaolin/ China clay
King's Yellow
Lime sulphur
Litharge
Lithopone
Liver of sulphur
Lunar caustic
Lye
Magnesia
Marsh gas
Massicot
Mohr's salt
Muriatic acid
Nitre
Orpiment
Oxymuriatic acid
Paris green
Plaster of Paris
Plumbago
Potash
Purple of Cassius
Pyrites (iron)
Realgar
Red lead / Minium
Rochelle salts
Sal ammoniac
Sal volatile
Saltpeter /Sal Petrier
Saltpeter, Norwegian
Selenite
Spirit of Nitre
Spirits of salt
Sugar of lead
Table salt
Tartar Emetic
Tripoli
Verdegris
Vinegar
Vitriol
Washing soda
Water Glass
White arsenic
White Lead
White vitriol

Calcium sulphate
Anhydrous calcium sulphate
Sodium bicarbonate
Barium oxide
Sodium hypochlorite
Calcium hypochlorite
Copper sulphate
Boric acid
Sodium tetraborate
Sulphur
Zinc carbonate
sodium nitrate
Mercuric chloride
Potassium hydroxide
Sodium hydroxide
Sodium Nitrate / Sodium Nitrite
Ferric chloride
Potassium permanganate
Ferrous sulphate
Potassium hydrogen tartrate
Solid carbon dioxide
Magnesium sulphate
Sulphur in powder form.
Non-plastic clay
Sodium sulphate
Calcium Sulphate
Silver chloride
Sodium thiosulphate
Carbon (from bones)
Aluminium silicate,
Arsenic trisulphide
Calcium polysulphide
Lead trioxide
Zinc sulphide and barium sulphate
Potassium polysulphide
Silver nitrate
Sodium hydroxide
Basic magnesium carbonate
Methane
Lead monoxide
Ferrous ammonium sulphate
Hydrochloric acid
Potassium nitrate
Arsenic trisulphide
Chlorine gas
Copper arsenite
Calcium sulphate
Graphite
Potasssium carbonate
Colloidal gold
Ferrous sulphide
Arsenic disulphide
Lead tetroxide
Sodium potassium tartrate
Ammonium chloride
Ammonium carbonate
Potassium Nitrate
Calcium nitrate
Calcium sulphate
Nitric acid
Hydrochloric acid
Lead Acetate
Sodium chloride
Potassium antimonyl tartrate
Diatomaceous earth
Copper Acetate /carbonate
Acetic acid
Sulphuric Acid concentrated
Sodium carbonate
Sodium silicate solution
Arsenious oxide
Lead carbonate
Zinc sulphate

Cheers for now,

John Burgess
Mapua, Nelson NZ

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