Aqua Regia Kit, 500ml #011195
medium to dissolve gold, platinum, etc. The colorful name, "aqua regia," is derived from ancient alchemy. It is from. The Latin for "royal water," and is believed to have been discovered in. 800 AD by the alchemist Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan. Formulation: Note that the often quoted ratio of nitric to hydrochloric of 1 to 3 is a