Klarinet Archive - Posting 000474.txt from 1997/08

From: "Brian Wilcher" <bcwilcher@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Float Test etc.
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:57:30 -0400

Let's put this silly string(sic) to rest. Aqua regia is a mixture of nitric
and hydrochloric acids. From my lab experience, I would predict that it
would dissolve the keys and pads off of all clarinets, destroy the structure
,if not dissolve wooden ones. However the lowly Bundys and Vitos would be
untouched(maybe blanced a little) by the acids.

Definition for aqua regia from database web1913 (web1913)
Nitrohydrochloric Ni`tro*hy`dro*chlo"ric, a. [Nitro- + hydrochloric.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric and hydrochloric acids.

Nitrohydrochloric acid, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, usually
in the proportion of one part of the former to three of the latter, and
remarkable for its solvent action on gold and platinum; -- called also
nitromuriatic acid, and aqua regia.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexis <lexgrant@-----.com>
Date: Monday, August 11, 1997 10:40 AM
Subject: Float Test etc.

>>Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 09:14:39 +0100 (BST)
>>From: Roger Shilcock
<roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
>>Subject: Re: RE: Float Test and cologne/Koln
>
>>Aqua regia is an unpleasant mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, which
>>dissolves gold. It is alleged to contain the NO2+ (?nitroxonium) ion).
>>Roger Shilcock
>
>
>For anyone who cared, the NO2+ ion is called a nitronium ion...a little
>piece of organic chemistry wisdom there.
>
>Alexis
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>
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