Acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels.
1 Dissolve realgar with one part of orpiment, with aqua fortis .
2 The glass cut a large gash, and the aqua fortis entering immediately, consumed the hand.
3 Put marcasite into aqua fortis and if it turns green, know that it has copper in it.
4 He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis .
5 Why then, he wondered, the vindictive expression etched, as if in aqua fortis , upon her carved features?
6 One of the Arabs, in plundering the baggage, lost his hand by breaking a bottle containing aqua fortis .
7 In temperament, they were much alike; although Haeckel perhaps does not use quite so much aqua fortis in his ink.
8 The liquid from the stoppered jar was no doubt muratum or aqua fortis , some sort of acid at any rate.
9 Do not act and say, like Macleay versus Fleming, "I write with aqua fortis to bite into brass."
10 He "accordingly bought seven: viz., aqua fortis , white arsenic, mercury, powder of diamonds, lapis costitus, great spiders, cantharides."
11 (1) Fort, forte, effort, comfort, fortitude, fortify, fortress; (2) aqua fortis , pianoforte.
12 "But, whereas a bullet in the belly causes pain before death, moiyit ilfadda ( aqua fortis ) causes pleasure; and a man dies either way."
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