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Aqua corrodens
Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A liquid category defined by corrosive action, including vinegar.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 5; facsimile PDF page 333.
Historical Definition
Aqua corrodens is vinegar and every corrosive liquor.
Meaning
This expression is broader than the name of a single liquid. Vinegar is included, but “every corrosive liquor” extends the entry to an action-based family. In the dictionary’s classification, the relevant feature is what the liquid does to other matter. A passage must supply the particular substance and conditions.
Read the adjective carefully. A water described as dissolving, mercurial or permanent does not automatically become identical with this corrosive category. The vocabulary can distinguish an operation, a claimed origin or a philosophical property. Here, the explicitly named characteristic is corrosion.
Places to Read
Corrosiva. Surgical preparations classified by removal of excess flesh.
Aqua solvens. A direct identification of a dissolving water as distilled vinegar.
Acetum radicale. A dissolving water described through the root and matrix of vinegar.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 5; facsimile PDF page 333 — Facsimile
See also. Corrosiva; Aqua solvens; Acetum radicale