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Hydrogen chloride
Question

Aquaregia is used to dissolve noble metals. Aquaregia is

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Solution

Aquaregia is 3 parts of conc. HCl and 1 part of conc. HNO3.

It forms NOCl which  liberates nascent chlorine;

Nascent chlorine is responsible for the dissolution of  Au and Pt.

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