nitrohydrochloric acid

1. 1.

   a yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals (including gold)

   Synonymsaqua regia

   Broaderacid

Questions about nitrohydrochloric acid

What does nitrohydrochloric acid mean?

nitrohydrochloric acid means "a yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals (including gold)".

What is another word for nitrohydrochloric acid?

Close synonyms include aqua regia. 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 nitrohydrochloric acid a common word?

nitrohydrochloric acid 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.