This note concerns density properties of the general multiquadric, (x²+c²)^k-1/2, where k is a fixed natural number. We establish that scattered translates of the general multiquadric are dense in C([a,b]), where a and b are finite. As a corollary, we show that scattered translated of the general multiquadric are dense in the function spaces L^p([a,b]), for 1≦ p <∞.