Aqua Rega is the name, and it will dissolve gold, thus it's name. I do not believe it will dissolve glass though, it takes hydroflouric acid for that.
Mashall Ode Coyote wrote: > If you mix sulphuric and nitric together, you get something that will > dissolve almost anything including gold I think. > This mix is so famous that it has a name of it's own. [Don't recall the > name just now] > ..add a little glycerine? > > I don't believe that's what's in acid based tinning flux. > > ode > > At 07:47 AM 4/15/2004 -0500, you wrote: > >According to the standard lab reference "Elements" by John Emsley, > >science writer at Cambridge University Silver dissolves in sulfuric > >(H2SO4) and nitric acid (HNO3). > > > >Where did you get your information Marshall? > > > >Garnet > > > >On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 22:02, Marshall Dudley wrote: > >> My guess is that it was a 14K silver plated copper chain, and the copper > reacted with the acid. There is no acid that will attack pure silver metal > >> at room temperature alone. If there was then cleaning stains left by > evaporated CS would be easy. > >> > >> Marshall > >> > >> Peter Rebaudo wrote: > >> > >> > Marshall Wrote > >> > > >> > silver is one of the most inert metals there is, it is slightly more > reactive than gold, but > >> > not much. You can drop it into fuming nitric, sulfuric and > hydrochloric acids > >> > (independently) and nothing happens. > >> > > >> > Marshal: > >> > > >> > As a child once I try to clean a silver chain in an Ounce of the acid > tinners use to solder. The chain completely dissolved after a few minutes. > >> > > >> > What kind of acid do You think it was? > >> > > >> > Peter R > >> > > >> > -- > >> > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >> > > >> > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >> > > >> > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > >> > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >> > > >> > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > >> > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >> > > >> > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >> > > > >
