aqua fortis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of aqua fortis
1595–1605; < Latin: literally, strong water
Example Sentences
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It kept growing again, so, in order to destroy its root, as he said, he rubbed it with what I suppose was aqua fortis, for it caused me a horrible pain.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
Dissolve in common aqua fortis as much silver as you please.
From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown
By accident a few drops of aqua fortis fell upon his spectacles.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various
Lilly was brought acquainted with the plot, and employed a locksmith in Bow Lane to make a saw for cutting asunder the iron bar, and also procured a supply of aqua fortis.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
The life of metals is a secret fatness; of salts, the spirit of aqua fortis; of pearls, their splendour; of marcasites and antimony, a tingeing metalline spirit; of arsenics, a mineral and coagulated poison.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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