Where can you buy muriatic Acid???

[Sam Thompson]

In chemistry class, the professor was talking of "Hydrochloric Acid" and saying how powerful it was. At then end, I went to him and asked "Is it more powerful than Muratic Acid?"

He replies: "Your father is a plumber."

I was floored! Apparently only plumbers refer to hydrochloric by that term. Score for the professor!

-Doug

It's known as hydrochloric acid in the bits of the world that aren't America. We also call it 'Spirits of Salt' and use it in a fairly concentrated form to clean drains.

If you dilute any acid, add the concentrate to the water otherwise the liquid can boil fiercely enough to leap out of the container.