aqua regia
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
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.
- Synonyms: aqua regis, nitro-hydrochloric acid
- 2005, D.J. Krus, Elements of Propositional Calculus ↗
- regaline
- French: eau régale
- German: Königswasser
- Italian: acqua regia
- Portuguese: água régia
- Russian: ца́рская во́дка
- Spanish: agua regia
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