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Of pertaining to or containing nitrogen specifically designating any one of those compounds in which as contrasted with nitrous compounds the element has a higher valence as nitric oxide nitric acid...
Nitroglycerin
A liquid appearing like a heavy oil colorless or yellowish and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate also called trinitroglycerin and glyceryl trinitrate It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion...
Bunsen cell
A zinc carbon cell in which the zinc amalgamated is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture the two plates being separated by a porous cup...
Chemosynthesis
Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid...
Denitration
A disengaging or removal of nitric acid...
Hydroxylamine
A nitrogenous organic base NH2OH resembling ammonia and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid It is usually obtained as a volatile unstable solution in water It acts as a strong reducing agent...
Mandarining
The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue as silk or wool not by coloring matter but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid...
metaphosphoric
Pertaining to or designating a monobasic acid HPO3 analogous to nitric acid and by heating phosphoric acid obtained as a crystalline substance commonly called glacial phosphoric acid Compare the tribasic orthophosphoric acid...
Monobasic
Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced said of acids as acetic nitric and hydrochloric acids are monobasic...
Nitrate
A salt of nitric acid...
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