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Meanings of spirit of niter in English

Russian
селитряная кислота
Portuguese
acido nitrico
Spanish
nitrosulfato amónico
Catalan
àcid nítric

Highly corrosive mineral acid.

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      селитряная кислота
      Synonyms
      Examples for "fuming nitric acid"
      Examples for "fuming nitric acid"
      1
      You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid.
      Fight Club
      2
      Fuming nitric acid may be used in nitrating benzyl cyanide, but the method here described is cheaper.
      Organic Syntheses / An Annual Publication of Satisfactory Method...
      1
      Dissolve realgar with one part of orpiment, with aqua fortis.
      The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
      2
      The glass cut a large gash, and the aqua fortis entering immediately, consumed the hand.
      Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
      3
      Put marcasite into aqua fortis and if it turns green, know that it has copper in it.
      The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
      4
      He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis.
      Sketches New and Old
      5
      Why then, he wondered, the vindictive expression etched, as if in aqua fortis, upon her carved features?
      Visionaries
      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...
      Usage of spirit of niter in English
      1
      The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of niter, gives a red.
      The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
      2
      And all that was in the bottle was sweet spirits of niter.
      Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp; Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorn...
      3
      Sweet spirits of niter!
      Skylark Three
      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.
      The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene