The Collaborative International Dictionary
Azotic \A*zot"ic\, a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of
azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. [R.]
--Carpenter.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chemistry obsolete English) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. 2 (context obsolete English) Fatal to animal life.
WordNet
Usage examples of "azotic".
Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.
But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.
Now, Harding having sulphuric acid at his disposal, had already been easily able to produce azotic acid by attacking the saltpeter with which nature supplied him.
The other substances, azotic acid and potash, were all at his disposal.
Harding then took two slips of zinc, one of which was plunged into azotic acid, the other into a solution of potash.
Cyrus Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
Taking some azotic acid, he mixed it with glycerine, which had been previously concentrated by evaporation, subjected to the water-bath, and he obtained, without even employing a refrigerant mixture, several pints of an oily yellow mixture.
The only thing to be collected, therefore, was elder-pith, for as to the other substance necessary for the manufacture of pyroxyle, it was only fuming azotic acid.
To make pyroxyle, the cotton must be immersed in the fuming azotic acid for a quarter of an hour, then washed in cold water and dried.
Cyrus Harding then took two slips of zinc, one of which was plunged into azotic acid, the other into a solution of potash.