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nitric acid
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nitric acid ( H NO ), also known as aqua fortis and spirit of niter , is a highly corrosive mineral acid . The pure compound is colorless, but older samples tend to acquire a yellow cast due to decomposition into oxides of nitrogen and water. Most commercially ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels [syn: aqua fortis ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Deposition of nitric acid in particular may contribute to the equation as a fertiliser as well as a pollutant perse. ▪ Results of the autumn and spring nitric acid measurements are shown in Fig. 2, together with total column ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nitric \Ni"tric\, a. [Cf. F. nitrique. See Niter .] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context inorganic compound English) A transparent, colourless to pale yellow, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO 3 ; a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial ...
Usage examples of nitric acid.
Another Camphor called N'gai, obtained from the Blumea Balcamferi (Compositae), differs chemically from the Borneo species, being levogyrate, and is converted by boiling nitric acid, to a substance considered identical with stearoptene of Chrysanthemum parthenium.
You take a 98percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid.
They'd already encountered one species which utilized nitric acid as gastric juice.
Something had crumpled the bicycle like a crush-proof cigarette pack in a strong man's hand, and then nitric acid rust had done its worst to the metal.
Before or after they work out how to feed fifteen thousand people when their crops are wilting, the ground is frozen, and the rain's about to turn into nitric acid?
Starfish that made their homes in pools of nitric acid in your belly.
Ellen passed him a beaker of dilute nitric acid and an eye dropper.