nitrate
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈnaɪˌtreɪt/
- Specialized
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nitrato
- The vegetation absorbs the nitrate and phosphate loads that are present in the stormwater.
- ammonium nitrate
- silver nitrate
- nitrate levels
Now, what happens to potassium nitrate when you heat it up?
- Now, what happens to potassium nitrate when you heat it up?
- Vegetables like lettuce and celery and beets contain huge amounts of nitrates.
- The ammonia is then used to create other forms of nitrogen, including ammonium nitrate and urea.
- Gunpowder contains sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate, nitrates.
- Nitrates carcinogenic, but here we have greens that have nitrates and those are good nitrates.
- I've got a couple of other videos on this channel about the the nitrate nitrite myth and how you can safely ignore that.
Examples
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High tides flush much of the nitrates out into the bay, providing nutrients for aquatic life.
Academic text (1999) -
Sodium nitrate is commonly used as a preservative in processed meats.
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Well, silver nitrate would do that, and artists have been using it for a thousands of years in their paint.
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Now, what happens to potassium nitrate when you heat it up?
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And ammonium nitrate is fine powder.
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OK, so I'm just going to mop off the excess silver nitrate from the back of this plate.
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So what happens is we mix silver nitrate with sodium chloride in this glass mixture.
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The report concludes that regulatory actions to date have failed to contain nitrate pollution of groundwater.
Academic text (2012) -
Nitrogen, in the form of nitrate, can pollute groundwater and drinking water supplies.
Academic text (1996) -
We just take ammonium nitrate and iron powder and mix them together very vigorously.
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.9
A white chemical used to help crops grow and to make explosives and rocket fuel
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4.7
A white salt used to help plants grow, make explosives, and preserve food
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4.0
A white substance people use as a fertilizer and to make explosives
- Specialized
A white salt that absorbs water from the air, dissolves in water, and is used as a fertilizer
- Specialized
A very flammable material made from plant fibers and a strong acid, used in lacquers, early photographic film, and explosives
A white solid salt made from aluminium and nitric acid used in dyeing and laboratory work
- Specialized
A yellow substance that dissolves in water, contains uranium and is used in nuclear labs
Surface Forms
Morphology
nitrate = nitric (semi-transparent) = nitr + ate
Built from the chemical combining form 'nitr-' plus the anion/salt-forming suffix '-ate'; clear to learners with basic chemistry knowledge but specialized for general B1 learners.
Etymology
Nitrate comes from the old word nitre, meaning 'salt', plus the ending -ate that chemists use for many 'salts'. So a nitrate is a kind of salt that contains nitrogen, which explains why nitrates are common in fertilizers and also used in explosives.