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Aqua Regia

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Noun

1. aqua regia, nitrohydrochloric acid

a yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals (including gold)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Aqua Regia

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noun
a yellow fuming corrosive mixture of one part nitric acid and three to four parts hydrochloric acid, used in metallurgy for dissolving metals, including gold
. Also called: nitrohydrochloric acid

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Aqua Regia

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a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Aqua Regia

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n.
A corrosive, fuming, volatile mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids, used for testing metals and dissolving platinum and gold. Also called nitrohydrochloric acid.

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