Aqua regia is a mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid in the ratio 3:1. If Vomited Fuhrer Ugly(who already has hydrochloric acid in his digestive fluids) gets his hands on some nitric acid, then he can actually melt Golden and Platinum S because Aqua regia can dissolve gold and platinum.
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Aqua Regia is a concentrated acid (nitric + hydrochloric) which can melt Gold and Platinum.
This PokΓ©mon, oozes Aqua Regia and has a signature poison type move which is SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST STEEL TYPES.
Royal Meltdown (Aqua Regia is latin for "Royal Water") - 100 DMG/ 100 Accuracy / 10 PP
(He's not a water type since Aqua Regia is a fully concentrated acid which has no content of water, and he's a fire type because it's apprantly a fuming liquid and guess what else fumes?)
Would love to hear more ideas about this PokΓ©mon :)
So i know you inquart Karat gold with silver to make it so you can remove most of the base metals so it will dissolve in aqua Regia and i know the reason high karat gold wont dissolve is because a layer of silver chloride forms on the outside of the gold stopping the reaction. but i also know that silver chloride is soluble in ammonia so my question is is it possible to add ammonia to aqua regia and dissolve karat gold straight up? i know it might not be possible to recover the silver but for small batches it is really only a few dollars and could save a few hours. The only possible problem i see is the ammonia does something to the gold in solution but i also don't think this would be because you add ammonia when precipitating out gold with oxalic acid.
Does anyone know how to get copper out of aqua regia? I heard use NaCl. Not sure if this is true.
The text (translated from Dutch reads:
for my masters thesis I am transcribing a Dutch manuscript with (alchemic?) recipes.
The title of the recipe I'm working on right now, has two strange drawings, one in the title and one in the margin. Can some of you recognise them? -> https://imgur.com/mk68V75
The text (translated from Dutch) reads:
>Aqua Fortis that [possible symbol?] dissolves sun (=gold)
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>so, take 2 parts of vitriol , 1 part sal armoniacum (?) 1 part nitre
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>and 1 part alum "de plum or de rocha" each very well (fine)
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>pulverized / Then mix them together and make water
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>of it with this sun (gold) can be solved
The drawing in the margin looks to be some apparatus? I traced the lines on the apparatus, but I doubt this makes thing clearer :) -> https://imgur.com/CTiTRl4
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I know this isn't exactly "true alchemy" but I have nowhere else to turn to with these question.
If inappropriate, please let me know and I'll remove this post...
*edit: added link to apparatus-drawing...
some kind of upgraded acid capable o dissolving gold
useless, but pretty cool
I was handling nitric acid the other day and I couldn't help but think anyone handling caustic liquids like that any time from like 1700 to the 1960's would either have had to be way more careful or gotten burned.
Hello evryone !
I wanted to start a gold refining process and wanted to use aqua regia (3HCl + HNO3).
Problem : it's illegal to buy nitric acid in my country for good reason.
However I saw a chemical manufacturer selling sodium nitrate as "powdered aqua regia". Stating that putting it in HCl will produce an aqua regia substitute.
I guess the reaction goes as follow
NaNO3 + HCl <=> NaCl + HNO3
My problem is that how do I know the concentration of each acid ? I remember that aqua regia is very dependant on the concentration of the two acids.
What do you think, is there a way to predict the concentration of each acid considering the starting parameters (mass of nitrate+ concentration and quantity of acid)
Also is there a way to get rid of the salt ?
I know how to get nitric acid from nitrate but this is dangerous and I would like to avoid that.
I have a bunch of gold pins, almost all are only partially gold plated, as well as some gold plated foil wires, and some gold plugs, all from various electronics I've scrapped.
Is there any benefit of the Aqua Regia method other than refining gold from things with no exposed base metal?
I know it's red wine, mystery ingredients, and angels' blood in the mythos, but if one were to make something similar irl, what do we think would go in it to make it hard to down and as described in series?
I was first thinking how kids or even some adults will mix all the sodas together into one sugary carbonated concoction, so maybe for AR, mix all the hard liquors together with majority red wine, a lot of Absinthe perhaps, and throw in some holy water gotten at a church (however you can) for effect? Lol.
https://preview.redd.it/xseo8g2sc3o41.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfd543b1cc75ac7cefdc344305f8e70c6e668798
I've got a nice green aqua regia solution of gold + copper. Here's some pics.
Do I have to precipitate both, then dissolve out the copper?
I'm not sure there's enough gold in there to justify buying $70 worth of nitric acid.
Can't I add some magical chemical and precipitate the copper only?
Ammonia?
I'm currently working on a project that features platinum nanoparticles on carbon supports as a catalyst, and I need a way to synthesize them. I thought back to a previous project and had the idea of potentially using aqua regia or another solvent to produce nanoparticles of platinum in the form of precipitate. I suspect that using a highly dilute solvent would produce small enough particles, but my main concern is that the precipitated particles would be too small to effectively collect. Does anybody have any insight on this? Thanks in advance!
Tl;dr I need some insight on the prospects of synthesizing platinum nanoparticles by precipitating platinum metal from a solvent.
