Muriatic Acid

Masonry Cleaners

AC-3 Cleaner
Safety acid cleaner.

Muriatic Acid
20% Professional Grade. Etches Concrete.

Masonry Cleaner 700
Cleans mortar stains off new masonry work.

H.D. 900 Restoration Cleaner
A heavdy duty cleaner for carbon and other stubborn stains.

Area Glossary

Masonry

That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like.

- John used a masonry cleaner to remove the rust stains around the water spigot.

Rust

Any of various powdery or scaly reddish-brown or reddish-yellow hydrated ferric oxides formed on iron and iron-containing materials by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water.

- Water traveled along the pipes leading into the basement causing rust stains to appear on the masonry.

Mortar

Any of various bonding materials used in masonry, surfacing, and plastering, especially a plastic mixture of cement or lime, sand, and water that hardens in place and is used to bind together bricks or stones.

- The mason determined that the mortar must have been poorly mixed.

Muriatic

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric.

-Muriatic acid is another name for hydrochloric acid.

Carbon

A naturally abundant nonmetallic element that occurs in many inorganic and in all organic compounds, exists freely as graphite and diamond and as a constituent of coal, limestone, and petroleum, and is capable of chemical self-bonding to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically, and commercially important molecules.

-Limestone, one of the materials in concrete, contains carbon.
-Masonry cleaners, such as Chargar's Restoration cleaner, can remove carbon stains.