aqua fortis

1. 1.

   acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels

   Synonymsnitric acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about aqua fortis

What does aqua fortis mean?

aqua fortis means "acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels".

What is another word for aqua fortis?

Close synonyms include nitric acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aqua fortis a common word?

aqua fortis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.