Nitric acid is used in the preparation of aqua regia.

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Nitric acid is used in the preparation of aqua regia (a mixture of 3 volume of concentrated HCl and 1 volume of concentrated $H N O_{3}$ ) for dissolving gold.

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(i) What is aqua-regia?
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