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aqua
/ˈækwə/
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What does aqua mean?
noun
- The compound water.
- A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.
adjective
- Of a greenish-blue colour.
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IPA pronunciation
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Do not act and say, like Macleay versus Fleming, "I write with aqua fortis to bite into brass."
He "accordingly bought seven: viz., aqua fortis, white arsenic, mercury, powder of diamonds, lapis costitus, great spiders, cantharides."
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Chloride of Gold.—Is prepared by dissolving gold in aqua regia, a composition of one part of nitric to two parts of muriatic acid.
No other acid except nitro-hydrochloric will dissolve Au or Pt; hence the ancients called it aqua regia, or king of liquids.
Wallachian is formed from Latin and Sclavonian; why then is not the word for water either woda or aqua, or a modification of either?