Meaning

1 senses

  1. To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

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

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Mercuric nitrate is an ionic compound.

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  2. The stain on the lab coat is due to silver nitrate.

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  3. Natural mineral water contains calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium as well as nitrate.

    deNatürliches Mineralwasser enthält Kalzium, Magnesium, Natrium, Kalium und Nitrat. — hjoest

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  4. The doctor may advise cautery, a method that burns the blood vessel with electric current, silver nitrate or a laser.

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  5. Hong Kong student Nick So developed a kit to measure the levels of potentially toxic nitrates and nitrites in homemade baby food.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Borrowed from French nitrate.

Borrowed from French nitrate.

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Forms

nitrates, nitrating, nitrated, nitrated
Base formnitrate · to nitrate
3rd person singularnitrates
Present participlenitrating
Past simplenitrated
Past participlenitrated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynitrate
he, she, itnitrates

Past simpleLesson

all personsnitrated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nitrated
he, she, ithas nitrated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nitrate

Word family

4 related words
Relatednitrationnitrativenitratornitric acid

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nitnitpicknitpickernitricnitritenitrogen
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