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Meanings of aqua fortis in English

Portuguese
acido nitrico
Catalan
àcid nítric

Acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels.

        acido nitrico
        Usage of aqua fortis in English
        1
        Dissolve realgar with one part of orpiment, with aqua fortis.
        The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
        2
        The glass cut a large gash, and the aqua fortis entering immediately, consumed the hand.
        Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
        3
        Put marcasite into aqua fortis and if it turns green, know that it has copper in it.
        The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
        4
        He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis.
        Sketches New and Old
        5
        Why then, he wondered, the vindictive expression etched, as if in aqua fortis, upon her carved features?
        Visionaries
        6
        One of the Arabs, in plundering the baggage, lost his hand by breaking a bottle containing aqua fortis.
        Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
        7
        In temperament, they were much alike; although Haeckel perhaps does not use quite so much aqua fortis in his ink.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 / Little J...
        8
        The liquid from the stoppered jar was no doubt muratum or aqua fortis, some sort of acid at any rate.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        9
        Do not act and say, like Macleay versus Fleming, "I write with aqua fortis to bite into brass."
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
        10
        He "accordingly bought seven: viz., aqua fortis, white arsenic, mercury, powder of diamonds, lapis costitus, great spiders, cantharides."
        She Stands Accused
        11
        (1) Fort, forte, effort, comfort, fortitude, fortify, fortress; (2) aqua fortis, pianoforte.
        The Century Vocabulary Builder
        12
        "But, whereas a bullet in the belly causes pain before death, moiyit ilfadda ( aqua fortis) causes pleasure; and a man dies either way."
        Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
        Translations for aqua fortis