In his “Cours de la Chimie”, Nicolas Lemery walks through a step-by-step Aqua Regia preparation. But before he instructs us to get a chemical Sal Armoniac, as seventeenth-century iatrochemists called a very indefinite, as well as not so pure, salt between salarmeniac and salmiac obtained out of urine salts.
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