Green death is a solution used to test the resistance to corrosion of metals. It consists of 11.9% sulfuric acid, 1.3% hydrochloric acid, 1% iron(III) chloride and 1% copper(II) chloride boiling at 103 °C.
Famous quotes containing the words green and/or death:
“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)