Thesaurus / aqua pura
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A tint of aqua-marina of marvellous delicacy spread a soft hue throughout the cavern.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGO
Neither this acid nor the nitrous will dissolve gold or platina; but a mixture of them, called aqua regia, will do it.
Platina is precipitated from a solution in aqua regia by sal-ammoniac, as gold is by martial vitriol.
It is soluble in the vitriolic or marine acids, and reduced to a yellow calx by nitrous acid or aqua regia.
If a little aqua-fortis be mixed with the water, the writing will dry well, and not run out of its form when the paper is wetted.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTS
We decide to have a round drink: they choose the precious aqua vitae: the white sort I think.
SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCE
In one dark corner lurked kegs of powder and of shot; another was the haunt of aqua vitæ and right Jamaica.
AUDREYMARY JOHNSTON
Boil some nut-galls in aqua fortis, and add to the infusion some gum Arabic and a little sulphuric acid.
SECRETS OF WISE MEN, CHEMISTS AND GREAT PHYSICIANSWILLIAM K. DAVID
"You have no need," he said, and going out of the room and down the stairs, made Stagg pour for him a glass of aqua vitæ.
AUDREYMARY JOHNSTON
Dissolve fine silver in aqua fortis; and after the dissolution, add some distilled water in the same manner as in the gold ink.
ENDLESS AMUSEMENTUNKNOWN
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.