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What is aqua fortis? - Chemistry

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What is aqua fortis?

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Nitric acid (HNO3) is called aqua fortis. Aqua fortis means strong water. It is so called because it reacts with nearly all metals.

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संबंधित प्रश्न

Fill in the blanks using the appropriate words given below :

(Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, Nitric oxide, Sulphuric acid)

Cold, dilute nitric acid reacts with copper to give ___________.


Write a balanced equation for the action of warm water on magnesium nitride.


Name the gas that is produced in the given case:

The action of cold and dilute nitric acid on copper


  1. Write a balanced chemical equation for the laboratory preparation of nitric acid.
  2. In the preparation of nitric acid from KNO3, concentrated hydrochloric acid is not used in place of concentrated sulphuric acid. Explain why?
  3. Conc. nitric acid prepared in the laboratory is yellow in colour. Why? How is this colour removed?
  4. Give reasons for the following:
    In the laboratory preparation of nitric acid, the mixture of concentrated sulphuric acid and sodium nitrate should not be heated very strongly above 200°C.

Write a balanced equation and name the products formed when concentrated nitric acid is heated.


 Identify the substance underlined: 
The dilute acid which is an oxidizing agent. 


Write the balanced equation for the following:
Action of concentrated nitric acid on copper.


The following statement is correct only under certain conditions. Rewrite the statement including the appropriate condition(s) and underline it in your answer.
Copper and nitric acid react together to produce nitrogen dioxide.


What happens when
Caustic soda solution is added to Cu(NO3)2 solution and product boiled.


From the formulae listed below, Choose, one, corresponding to the salt having the given description:
AgCl, CuCO3, CuSO4.5H2O, KNO3, NaCl, NaHSO4, Pb(NO3)2, ZnCO3, ZnSO4, 7H2O.
On heating this, salt changes from green to black.


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