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Aqua Regia

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Here are three samples of gold. We add concentrated hydrochloric acid on the left, concentrated nitric acid on the right, and a mixture of the two in the middle. The gold reacts with the concentrated acid mixture which is referred to as aqua regia, meaning "royal water".

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