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nitrats

nitrats is the plural of nitrat.

Meaning of nitrat

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

Questions about nitrats

What is nitrats the plural of?
Nitrats is the plural of nitrat.

Words near nitrats in the dictionary

  1. nitrative
  2. nitratocuprate
  3. nitratocuprates
  4. nitrator
  5. nitrators
  6. nitrats
  7. nitrazepam
  8. nitrazepate
  9. nitrazine
  10. nitre
  11. nitre bush

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