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Aqua regia

noun
1.
A yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals (including gold).  Synonym: nitrohydrochloric acid.





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... substances. He that will examine his complex idea of gold, will find several of its ideas that make it up to be only powers; as the power of being melted, but of not spending itself in the fire; of being dissolved in AQUA REGIA, are ideas as necessary to make up our complex idea of gold, as its colour and weight: which, if duly considered, are also nothing but different powers. For, to speak truly, yellowness is not actually in gold, but is a power in gold to produce that idea in us by our eyes, when placed ...
— An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. - MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4) • John Locke
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Words linked to "Aqua regia" :   acid, nitrohydrochloric acid


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