This yellow liquid gives off the suffocating fumes of chlorine and nitrosyl chloride when warmed.
This yellow liquid gives off the suffocating fumes of chlorine and nitrosyl chloride when warmed. It is most useful for its effect on such hard- to-dissolve substances as palladium, mercury sulfide, and platinum. FTP, identify this mixture of three parts hydrochloric acid and one part nitric acid whose name comes from the fact that it can also dissolve gold, the "king of metals."
This yellow liquid gives off the suffocating fumes of chlorine and nitrosyl chloride when warmed.
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