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AQUA REGIA

• AQUA REGIA (noun)
The noun AQUA REGIA has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: AQUA REGIA used as a noun is very rare.

• AQUA REGIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

aqua regia; nitrohydrochloric acid

Hypernyms ("aqua regia" is a kind of...):

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

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