Highly corrosive mineral acid.
A toxic, corrosive, colorless liquid used to make fertilizers, dyes, explosives, and other chemicals.
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Examples for "spirit of niter "
Examples for "spirit of niter "
1 The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of niter , gives a red.
2 And all that was in the bottle was sweet spirits of niter .
4 If the secretion seems highly concentrated, a drop of sweet spirits of niter in a teaspoonful of water may be given every two hours.
1 You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid.
2 Fuming nitric acid may be used in nitrating benzyl cyanide, but the method here described is cheaper.
1 Dissolve realgar with one part of orpiment, with aqua fortis .
2 The glass cut a large gash, and the aqua fortis entering immediately, consumed the hand.
3 Put marcasite into aqua fortis and if it turns green, know that it has copper in it.
4 He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis .
5 Why then, he wondered, the vindictive expression etched, as if in aqua fortis , upon her carved features?
1 Allow the action of the nitric acid to cease before adding more.
2 On solution in glacial acetic acid and addition of nitric acid , b-nitroalizarin
3 It can be dissolved cold in nitric acid , discharging little gaseous bubbles.
4 This should have about forty drops of nitric acid to the quart.
5 Collect the precipitate, ignite with nitric acid , and weigh as magnesic pyrarsenate.
6 Strong acids, such as sulphuric acid and nitric acid , also dissolve it.
7 Here we have a touch-stone, and here we have some nitric acid .
8 The solution of copper in nitric acid is effected by the following reaction:-
9 N.serve develops projects to reduce emissions at nitric acid plants and other facilities.
10 The nitric acid of commerce, is generally the article used by the Daguerreotypist.
11 In other words, the liquid was shown to be nitric acid .
12 Either regulus or precipitate may be readily dissolved in nitric acid .
13 PROCEDURE.-Acidifythe filtrate from the iron determination with dilute nitric acid .
14 To enhance the anthropogenic signal, a partial digestion using nitric acid was performed.
15 The yellow colour reappears on adding a few more drops of nitric acid .
16 The basic element of explosives is nitrogen, which is introduced by nitric acid .
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Translations for nitric acid