aqua pura

[ pyoor-uh ]

/ ˈpyʊər ə /

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pure water.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1930–35

In this aqua blanket with its frayed edges I smelled home: warm laundry, bacon frying, coffee and cigarettes.
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AQUA Studio NYLocation: New York, NYPrice: $40 You could swim and you could bike, or you could cycle in the water.
12 Priciest Fitness Classes (Actually Worth the Splurge)|DailyBurn|February 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The MTA did try something similar on the west side yard of Penn Station: a giant tube full of water known as an aqua dam.
Hurricane Sandy’s Lesson for Flood-Proofing a Subway|Josh Dzieza|November 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But there, in her aqua-painted bedroom, there was no judgment, only admiration.
A Daughter, Rediscovered on Facebook|Tré Miller Rodríguez|May 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The hair is most definitely UP, and gone are the usual greys and whites and in its place a shocking aqua-marine teal.
Princess Kate Works a Wow factor|Tom Sykes|May 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
A tint of aqua-marina of marvellous delicacy spread a soft hue throughout the cavern.
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo
Neither this acid nor the nitrous will dissolve gold or platina; but a mixture of them, called aqua regia, will do it.
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry|Joseph Priestley
Platina is precipitated from a solution in aqua regia by sal-ammoniac, as gold is by martial vitriol.
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry|Joseph Priestley
It is soluble in the vitriolic or marine acids, and reduced to a yellow calx by nitrous acid or aqua regia.
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry|Joseph Priestley
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 Curiosities|I. Platts