Over the previous decades, applications of acid digestions for the determination of gold have reported low or variable gold recoveries from geological samples on a consistent basis. 1,2 Poor gold ...
Professor Martyn Poliakoff, host of the excellent Periodic Videos channel on YouTube, obtained a bottle of Tsar’s Vodka during a trip to Russia and was inspired to pour aqua regia into the same bottle ...
Royal water, or better known for its Latin name Aqua regia, is a fuming, corrosive liquid solution first invented by an Arab alchemist back in the 8th century. It is a mixture of one part of nitric ...
The main aim of the present study is to develop a new method to recover gold and other precious metals such as copper, silver, etc. with the judicious combination of microwave heating and acid ...