nitrohydroˈchloric, a. Chem.
[nitro- a.]
nitrohydrochloric acid, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, forming a powerful solvent, also called nitromuriatic acid and aqua regia.
| 1836–41 Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 605 Rhodium is insoluble in acids, but, when alloyed with copper or lead, the nitrohydrochloric acid dissolves it. 1869 Roscoe Elem. Chem. 252 Dissolving tin in cold nitro-hydrochloric acid. 1889 Ramsden Inorg. Chem. 281 The product of the action of nitro-hydrochloric acid upon a metal is the corresponding chloride. |