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nitrat

nitrat noun: a salt or ester of nitric acid; nitrate.

Noun

nitrat (plural nitrats)

  1. (obsolete) a salt or ester of nitric acid; nitrate.
    • The tartareous acid has no direct action on lead, but added to the red oxyd it whitens it, and if a few drops of the acid in solution be poured into the liquid nitrat, or any other soluble salt of lead, a white pulverulent tartrite of lead is separated.1807, Aikin, C. R., Comp., Dictionary Of Chemistry And Mineralogy Vol. 2, page 26

Forms of nitrat

pluralnitrats

Questions about nitrat

What does nitrat mean?
Nitrat means a salt or ester of nitric acid; nitrate.
What part of speech is nitrat?
Nitrat is a noun.
What is the plural of nitrat?
The plural of nitrat is nitrats.

Words near nitrat in the dictionary

  1. nitraniline
  2. nitranilines
  3. nitraquazone
  4. nitraries
  5. nitrary
  6. nitrat
  7. nitratation
  8. nitratations
  9. nitrate
  10. nitrate of soda
  11. nitrated

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