A yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals (including gold)
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Examples for "aqua regia "
Examples for "aqua regia "
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.
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Translations for nitrohydrochloric acid