Acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels.
1Dissolve realgar with one part of orpiment, with aqua fortis.
2The glass cut a large gash, and the aqua fortis entering immediately, consumed the hand.
3Put marcasite into aqua fortis and if it turns green, know that it has copper in it.
4He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis.
5Why then, he wondered, the vindictive expression etched, as if in aqua fortis, upon her carved features?
6One of the Arabs, in plundering the baggage, lost his hand by breaking a bottle containing aqua fortis.
7In temperament, they were much alike; although Haeckel perhaps does not use quite so much aqua fortis in his ink.
8The liquid from the stoppered jar was no doubt muratum or aqua fortis, some sort of acid at any rate.
9Do not act and say, like Macleay versus Fleming, "I write with aqua fortis to bite into brass."
10He "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."
Translations for aqua fortis