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Meanings of aqua regia in English
Portuguese
água regia Catalan
aigua règia A yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals (including gold)
Usage of aqua regia in English
1
The spent aqua regia may be put into a bottle.
2
Nitric acid and even aqua regia merely hissed and spattered against its torrid invulnerability.
3
It is soluble in aqua regia (nitro-hydrochloric acid).
4
It occurs in bright metallic scales, which do not alloy with lead, and are insoluble in aqua regia.
5
On treatment with hydrochloric acid or aqua regia they are decomposed; the yellow tungstic acid separates and remains insoluble.
6
This he dissolved in the aqua regia, formed by the combination of the two acids, and applied the usual chemical tests.
7
Thirteen and a half grams of the coarse material were dissolved in aqua regia, and diluted with water to 1 litre.
8
Zaffre, digested in aqua regia, and diluted with four times its weight of water, is sometimes employed; a green tint results.
9
Gold is insoluble in hydrochloric or nitric acid, but is dissolved by aqua regia or by solutions of iodine, bromine, or chlorine.
10
Chloride of Gold.-Isprepared by dissolving gold in aqua regia, a composition of one part of nitric to two parts of muriatic acid.
11
The percentage of arsenic is better determined as follows:-Weighup 1 gram of the substance, dissolve in aqua regia, dilute, and pass sulphuretted hydrogen.
12
Dissolve any quantity of gold or platina in nitro-muriatic acid, ( aqua regia,) until no further effervescence is occasioned by the application of heat.
13
When the Nazis ransacked Bohr's institute, they scoured the building for loot or evidence of wrongdoing but left the beaker of orange aqua regia untouched.
14
Nitro-Muriatic Acid.-AquaRegia is a compound menstruum invented by the alchemists for dissolving gold.
15
The alloy is then insoluble in ' 'aqua regia.''
16
20. aqua regia: "royal water," so called because it dissolves gold, is a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids.