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How to use nitrate in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Nitrate means any salt or ester of nitric acid. Example: “Black powder consists of an intimate mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.”

Examples of nitrate by meaning

nounAny salt or ester of nitric acid.

  • Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium and potassium nitrates.1992 March 10, “Removal of Nitrates”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • The underground water which feeds Britain's springs and rivers and provides a third of its drinking water is becoming seriously polluted with nitrates, causing a threat to wildlife and landing consumers with a big purification bill.2003 August 11, Paul Brown, “Nitrate pollution raises water bills”, in The Guardian
  • The pinkness of bacon – or cooked ham, or salami – is a sign that it has been treated with chemicals, more specifically with nitrates and nitrites.2018 March 1, Bee Wilson, “Yes, bacon really is killing us”, in The Guardian

More sentences with nitrate

  • Black powder consists of an intimate mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.From the entry intimate
  • Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.From the entry shock
  • The runoff of nitrates is poisoning the lake.From the entry runoff
  • The relationship between nitrate concentration in drinking water and esophageal cancer has been inconclusive.2010, T.T. Yu, A.G. Zhou, X.Q. Li, H.S. Cai, Y.D. Liu, “Nitrate in drinking water in relation to the incidence and mortality of esophageal…. From the entry Linzhou
  • “Amyl nitrate is the only drug gay people can claim to know better than straight people"2005, The Advocate, numbers 942-953, page 2. From the entry poppers
  • Amyl nitrate, colloquially called “poppers” has been implicated in the epidemic among gay men.1995, California Community Planning Working Group, California HIV Prevention Plan, page 155. From the entry poppers
  • The symptoms of acute nitrate poisoning are quite characteristic provided the affected animals are not disturbed.1963 August 15, “[Trends and Discoveries:] Nitrate Poisoning in Ruminants”, in New Scientist, volume 19, number 352, London: New Science…. From the entry froth at the mouth
  • Equal concentration (25 mM) growth solution was prepared by mixing both zinc nitrate hexahydrate and hexamethyltetramine in deionized water.2015 July 16, Veeradasan Perumal et al., “‘Spotted Nanoflowers’: Gold-seeded Zinc Oxide Nanohybrid for Selective Bio-capture”, in…. From the entry hexamethyltetramine
  • The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.2007, Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International, page 661. From the entry prill
  • Furfural saturated with salicylic acid was used in a recent study of the separation of zirconyl and hafnyl nitrates.1960, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Reactor Development, E. T. Hayes, The Metallurgy of Hafnium (page 57). From the entry hafnyl
  • Thoria is introduced as thorium nitrate into the tungstic oxide before the latter is reduced by hydrogen to tungsten power.1924, Zay Jeffries, Robert Samuel Archer, The Science of Metals, McGraw–Hill, page 106. From the entry tungstic
  • Neighbouring oficinas place nitrate f.o.b. at shipping ports at a cost of from 5s to 5s. 6d. a quintal.1907 July 22, F. G. Lomax, “Copy of letter from Mr. F. G. Lomax to the Law Debenture Corporation (Limited)”, in The Daily Telegraph…. From the entry oficina
  • Suppose that we add such a quantity of silver nitrate as to double the amount of argention after equilibrium has been attained.1910, James Walker, Introduction to Physical Chemistry, page 330. From the entry argention
  • Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).2013, John Read, From Alchemy to Chemistry. From the entry sugar
  • As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.2009, Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski, Miroslaw Gebarowski, Polish Sausages: Authentic Recipes and Instructions, page 13. From the entry polish
  • Pseudomonas stutzeri soluble nitrate reductase alphabeta-subunit is a soluble enzyme with a similar electronic structure at the active light site as the inner membrane-bound alphabetagamma holoenzyme.2004, Index Medicus, page 1737. From the entry alphabetagamma
  • The DPA test referred to by Martz is a color spot test for a range of oxidizing compounds, which include but are not limited to nitrates.1998, Michael R Bromwich, The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices & Alleged Misconduct. From the entry spot test
  • Durylic acid may give a small amount of nitrotrimethylbenzene when nitrated with strong nitric acid while prehnitenecarboxylic acid forms dinitroprenitene quantitatively with fuming nitric acid and sulfuric acid at 10°.1951, Ernest Edwin Campaigne, Herschel Gene Grose, The Nitration of 5-methyl-2-thenoic Acid, page 55. From the entry durylic acid

Meaning of nitrate

  1. noun Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
  2. verb To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate.

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Questions about nitrate in a sentence

How do you use nitrate in a sentence?
Nitrate is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Black powder consists of an intimate mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.”
What is a short sentence with nitrate?
“Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.”
What does nitrate mean?
Nitrate means any salt or ester of nitric acid.

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