aqua regia
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Etymology[edit]
Latin aqua regia, royal water, so named because it is one of the few solvents capable of dissolving noble metals.
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aqua regia (uncountable) (abbreviation A.R.)
- (inorganic chemistry) A mixture of three parts concentrated hydrochloric acid to one part concentrated nitric acid.
- 2005, D.J. Krus, Elements of Propositional Calculus
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005, D.J. Krus, Elements of Propositional Calculus
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mixture of acids
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