Found 2 items, similar to Nitrate.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: nitrate
nitrate
n : any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or
ester of nitric acid)
v : treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound
into a nitrate;
“nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating
glycerol”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Nitrate
Nitrate
\Ni"trate\, n. [Cf. F. nitrate.] (Chem.)
A salt of nitric acid.
[1913 Webster]
Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (
AgNO3), used
in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also
lunar caustic, and more commonly called
silver nitrate
.
[1913 Webster +PJC]