nitrite
/ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪt/
nitrite noun: any salt or ester of nitrous acid.
Noun
nitrite (countable and uncountable, plural nitrites)
- Any salt or ester of nitrous acid.
- John Birdsall, a scientist for the American Meat Institute, said that there were no industry qualms about trying to lower the nitrite amounts even farther. For centuries, some form of nitrites have been used to cure and to preserve bacon and to give it a pink color.1978 May 16, Seth S. King, “Nitrate Reduction Ordered in Bacon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- The univalent radical -NO₂, and the anion NO₂⁻
nitrite meaning in Tamil and Telugu
nitrite in Tamil
- நைட்ரைட் உப்பு, நைட்ரட், நைட்ரைட்டு, நைதிரைற்று, நைத்திரைற்று
nitrite in Telugu
- nitrite
- నైట్రైటు naiṭraiṭu
Forms of nitrite
| plural | nitrites |
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Words formed from nitrite
- alkyl nitrite
- amyl nitrite
- butyl nitrite
- cyclohexyl nitrite
- ethyl nitrite
- hyponitrite
- isoamyl nitrite
- isopropyl nitrite
- nitrite reductase
- nitritoid
- nitrituria
- potassium nitrite
- sodium nitrite
- sulfonitrite
- sulphonitrite
Phrases with nitrite
Questions about nitrite
- What does nitrite mean?
- Nitrite means any salt or ester of nitrous acid.
- What is nitrite in Tamil?
- Nitrite in Tamil is நைட்ரைட் உப்பு, நைட்ரட், நைட்ரைட்டு. See Nitrite meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is nitrite?
- Nitrite is a noun.
- How do you pronounce nitrite?
- Nitrite is pronounced /ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪt/.
- What is the plural of nitrite?
- The plural of nitrite is nitrites.
Words near nitrite in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nitrite (page history and authors); nitrite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నైట్రైటు (Telugu) (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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