nitrite
See also: Nitrite
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: nī'trīt, IPA(key): /ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪtɹaɪt
Noun
nitrite (countable and uncountable, plural nitrites)
- (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitrous acid.
- 1978 May 16, Seth S. King, “Nitrate Reduction Ordered in Bacon”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- John Birdsall, a scientist for the American Meat Institute, said that there were no industry qualms about trying to lower the nitrite amounts even farther. For centuries, some form of nitrites have been used to cure and to preserve bacon and to give it a pink color.
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- (chemistry) The univalent radical -NO2, and the anion NO2-
Derived terms
- alkyl nitrite
- amyl nitrite
- butyl nitrite
- cyclohexyl nitrite
- ethyl nitrite
- isopropyl nitrite
- nitritoid
- sodium nitrite
- sulfonitrite, sulphonitrite
Translations
salt or ester of nitrous acid
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-NO2 and NO2-
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Anagrams
- nittier
French
Noun
nitrite m (plural nitrites)
- nitrite
Further reading
- “nitrite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Verb
nitrite
- inflection of nitrire:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
nitrite f pl
- feminine plural of nitrito
Anagrams
- ritenti, ritinte