NITRIC ACID
\nˈa͡ɪtɹɪk ˈasɪd], \nˈaɪtɹɪk ˈasɪd], \n_ˈaɪ_t_ɹ_ɪ_k ˈa_s_ɪ_d]\
Definitions of NITRIC ACID
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Nitric acid (HNO3). A colorless liquid that is used in the manufacture of inorganic and organic nitrates and nitro compounds for fertilizers, dye intermediates, explosives, and many different organic chemicals. Continued exposure to vapor may cause chronic bronchitis; chemical pneumonitis may occur. (From Merck Index, 11th ed)
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By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
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Nitric acid is obtained from nitre-Nitrate of potassa. Its odour is suffocating; taste very acid and caustic. It is corrosive, liquid, colourless, and transparent. S.g. 1.500. Strong nitric acid is rarely used except as an application to foul, indolent ulcers, or to warts. When given internally, it is in the form of the
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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HNO3, liquid, colorless; used as caustic and escharotic. Official nitric a. contains 68 per cent, of pure acid; dilute nitric a., 10 per cent., and crude nitric a., 61 per cent. Fuming nitric a. is a brownish liquid which gives off a suffocating vapor.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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