aqua regia en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin aqua rēgia (literally “royal water”), so named because it is one of the few solvents capable of dissolving noble metals.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) A mixture of three parts concentrated hydrochloric acid to one part concentrated nitric acid, named for its ability to dissolve gold.
Consider another example. If gold is placed in aqua regia then it dissolves. Aqua regia is a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids that dissolves gold or platinum. Observation of gold dissolving in aqua regia (argument 1 1) lends credence to the above conditional statement. Not placing the gold into aqua regia and gold not dissolving (argument 0 0) does not disprove the truth-value of this conditional.
2005, D.J. Krus, Elements of Propositional Calculus:
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Synonyms
nitro-hydrochloric acid · aqua regis
Translations (35)
hu királyvíz (mixture of acids) · fa تیزاب سلطانی (mixture of acids) · vi nước cường toan (mixture of acids) · fr eau régale (mixture of acids) · vi cường thuỷ (mixture of acids) · la aqua rēgia (mixture of acids) · ja 王水 (mixture of acids) · ko 왕수 (mixture of acids) · pl woda królewska (mixture of acids) · ms air raja (mixture of acids) · sv kungsvatten (mixture of acids) · gu અમ્લરાજ (mixture of acids) · da kongevand (mixture of acids) · uk ца́рська вода́ (mixture of acids) · uk ца́рська горі́лка (mixture of acids) · es agua regia (mixture of acids) · he מֵי מֶלֶך (mixture of acids) · kk патша арағы (mixture of acids) · ru ца́рская во́дка (mixture of acids) · de Königswasser (mixture of acids) · cmn 王酸 (mixture of acids) · nb kongevann (mixture of acids) · lv karaļūdens (mixture of acids) · ms akua regia (mixture of acids) · bn অম্লরাজ (mixture of acids) · tr altın suyu (mixture of acids) · ar مَاء مَلَكِيّ (mixture of acids) · ta சுவர்ணபேதி (mixture of acids) · pt água régia (mixture of acids) · fi kuningasvesi (mixture of acids) · it acqua regia (mixture of acids) · hi अम्लराज (mixture of acids) · nl koningswater (mixture of acids) · tr kral suyu (mixture of acids) · cmn 王水 (mixture of acids)