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Meanings of salpetre acid in English

A toxic, corrosive, colorless liquid used to make fertilizers, dyes, explosives, and other chemicals.

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Examples for "nitric acid"
Examples for "nitric acid"
1
Allow the action of the nitric acid to cease before adding more.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
2
On solution in glacial acetic acid and addition of nitric acid, b-nitroalizarin
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
3
It can be dissolved cold in nitric acid, discharging little gaseous bubbles.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
4
This should have about forty drops of nitric acid to the quart.
American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
5
Collect the precipitate, ignite with nitric acid, and weigh as magnesic pyrarsenate.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...