nitric : Idioms & Phrases
Nitric acid
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noun acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels
aqua fortis.
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- a colorless or yellowish liquid obtained by distilling a nitrate with sulphuric acid. It is powerfully corrosive, being a strong acid, and in decomposition a strong oxidizer.
Webster 1913
Nitric anhydride
- a white crystalline oxide of nitrogen (
N2O5 ), callednitric pentoxide , and regarded as the anhydride of nitric acid.
Webster 1913
nitric bacteria
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noun soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates
nitrobacteria.
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nitric bacterium
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noun any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates
nitrate bacterium.
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Nitric oxide
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noun a poisonous red-brown gas (NO)
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- a colorless poisous gas (
NO ) obtained by treating nitric acid with copper. On contact with the air or with oxygen, it becomes reddish brown from the formation of nitric dioxide or peroxide.