nitric acid
nitric acid noun: a transparent, colorless 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.
Noun
nitric acid (uncountable)
- A transparent, colorless 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.
- Instantly a little vapour arose from it, as happens when one disturbs nitric acid, and this sight did not increase my hopes, already faint enough, of the efficacy of the treatment.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- aqua fortis, strong water
nitric acid meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and Tagalog
nitric acid in Tamil
- நைத்திரிக்கமிலம், நைதரிக்கமிலம், நைட்ரிக் அமிலம்
nitric acid in Bengali
- নাইট্রিক এসিড, নাইট্রিক অ্যাসিড
nitric acid in Gujarati
- nitric acid
- સુરોખારનો તેજાબ surokhārno tejāb
nitric acid in Tagalog
- HNO3
- agwa-puwerte
More languagesFewer languages
- nitric acid in Arabic
- حمض النتريك ḥamḍ an-nitrīk
- nitric acid in Indonesian
- asam nitrat
- nitric acid in Persian
- نیتریک اسید nitrik asid, تیزآب tiz-âb, جوهر شوره jowhar-e šure
- nitric acid in Thai
- กรดไนตริก gròt-nai-dtrìk
- nitric acid in Vietnamese
- axit nitric
Synonyms of nitric acid
Words formed from nitric acid
Questions about nitric acid
- What does nitric acid mean?
- Nitric acid means a transparent, colorless 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.
- What is nitric acid in Tamil?
- Nitric acid in Tamil is நைத்திரிக்கமிலம், நைதரிக்கமிலம், நைட்ரிக் அமிலம். See Nitric acid meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is nitric acid?
- Nitric acid is a noun.
Words near nitric acid in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nitric acid (page history and authors); nitric acid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nitric acid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સુરોખારનો તેજાબ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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