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:
“I live in my wooden legs and O
my green green hands.
Too late
to wish I had not run from youpollo,
blood moves still in my bark bound veins.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“if thou slip thy troth and do not come at all.
As minutes in the clock do strike so call for death I shall:
To please both thy false heart, and rid myself from woe,
That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so.”
—Unknown. The Lady Prayeth the Return of Her Lover Abiding on the Seas (l. 19–22)