Nitrate

Word NITRATE
Character 7
Hyphenation ni trate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Nitrate"

What do we mean by nitrate?

The univalent anionic group NO3, derived from nitric acid, or a compound containing this group. noun

Fertilizer consisting of sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate. noun

To treat with nitric acid or a nitrate, usually to change (an organic compound) into a nitrate. transitive verb

To treat or prepare with nitric acid: as, nitrated guncotton.

To convert (a base) into a salt by combination with nitric acid.

Important experiments have been made on an industrial scale for the production economically of nitrates from atmospheric air by high-tension electrical discharges through moist air in the presence of basic materials. noun

A salt of nitric acid. noun

A salt of nitric acid. noun

A white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic, and more commonly called silver nitrate. noun

Any salt or ester of nitric acid. noun

To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate verb

Treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate verb

Any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) noun

Any salt or ester of nitric acid.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nitrate

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The word "nitrate" in example sentences

Anyone with a semester in chemistry should realise that sodium nitrate is not metallic sodium. ooooze Says: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bottles of uranium nitrate from the uranium mines in St. Joachimsthal. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The most common ingredient in Afghan IEDs is ammonium nitrate, which is used to make fertilizer. ❋ Craig Whitlock (2011)

Investigators said he was carrying a backpack with a quantity of ammonium nitrate, which is widely used in explosives and is available commercially as fertilizer; a spiral notebook containing references to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden; spent 9 mm shell casings; and cans of spray paint. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This protester's son, who has picketed the clinic since he was a small child (he is now in his early twenties), has made a point of mentioning ammonium nitrate, which is used in making bombs, to us while protesting on several occasions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

TOWNSEND: Well, we know, one, it was three tons of ammonium nitrate, which is the reason that the Canadians were so concerned. ❋ Unknown (2006)

MIKE MCDONELL, ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE: This group took steps to acquire components necessary to create explosive devices using ammonium nitrate, which is a commonly used fertilizer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They were charged with getting ammonium nitrate, which is explosive -- the same thing that was used in Oklahoma City. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Although no one was arrested there, Bokaba said detectives seized 54kg of ammonium nitrate, which is used to manufacture explosives. ❋ Unknown (2002)

We made some chlorine nitrate, which is not hard to make but is difficult to keep because it reacts very easily with water. ❋ F. Sherwood Rowland (2000)

Acrylic amine nitrate, which is another derived compound has a similar action. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Most mercurous salts are insoluble in water, the principal soluble one being the nitrate, which is made by the action of cold, dilute nitric acid on mercury. ❋ William McPherson (N/A)

Nitrogen comes in the form of a salt, called nitrate of soda, and in dried blood. ❋ Various (N/A)

The small grains, wheat, oats, barley and rye, can use tough phosphoric acid and potash, but are weak on nitrogen, and as they make the greater part of their growth in the cool spring before nitrification is rapid, they are benefitted by the application of nitrogen, particularly in the form of nitrate, which is quickly available. ❋ Charles Landon Goodrich (N/A)

These elements may be fed to the plants in various forms; for instance, the nitrogen in hen manure, or in cottonseed meal, or in salts from the nitrate fields of Chile, known as nitrate of soda; the phosphoric acid from bone, or from acid phosphate (a ground rock treated with acid); the potash from wood ashes or from German potash salts ❋ Unknown (1930)

For example, 0.0266 gram of mixed chlorides required on titrating 14.2 c.c. of silver nitrate, which is equivalent to 0.0142 gram of chlorine. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

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