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nitric acid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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; nitric acid.
Nitric acid, a colorless or yellowish liquid obtained by distilling a nitrate with sulphuric acid. It is powerfully corrosive, being a strong acid, and in decomposition a strong oxidizer.
Nitric anhydride, a white crystalline oxide of nitrogen ( N2O5), called nitric pentoxide, and regarded as the anhydride of nitric acid.
Nitric oxide, a colorless poisous gas ( NO) obtained by treating nitric acid with copper. On contact with the air or with oxygen, it becomes reddish brown from the formation of nitrogen dioxide ( NO2, also called nitric dioxide or nitric peroxide).
Wiktionary
n. (context inorganic compound English) A transparent, colourless to pale yellow, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO3; a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial processes; once called aqua fortis.
WordNet
n. acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels [syn: aqua fortis]
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 available nitric acid has a concentration of 68% in water. When the solution contains more than 86% HNO, it is referred to as fuming nitric acid. Depending on the amount of nitrogen dioxide present, fuming nitric acid is further characterized as white fuming nitric acid or red fuming nitric acid, at concentrations above 95%.
Nitric acid is the primary reagent used for nitration – the addition of a nitro group, typically to an organic molecule. While some resulting nitro compounds are shock- and thermally-sensitive explosives, a few are stable enough to be used in munitions and demolition, while others are still more stable and used as pigments in inks and dyes. Nitric acid is also commonly used as a strong oxidizing agent.
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.