nitric
5
8.0
- adjective
- /ˈnaɪtrɪk/
- Specialized
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nítrico
- If you were to add nitric acid, you got nitroglycerin.
- nitric acid
- nitric oxide
I used some diluted nitric acid to etch a sword blade.
- I used some diluted nitric acid to etch a sword blade.
- We're making a new nitric oxide product.
- So one of the many things that sunlight does when it hits your skin is it makes nitric oxide.
- These heat shock proteins also stimulate the release of nitric oxide, which then can inhibit the replication of viruses like SARS or the SARS virus.
- What is happening is the the humming is releasing nitric oxide in our in our system.
- And if you, because of all of these different tissues, they, they release nitric oxide.
- Smell the copper dust under the graver, the scent of black wove paper and nitric acid in the rough basement.
- So the the thinking is that that might actually lower ADMASDMA and raise nitric oxide synthase.
- It kicks the nitric oxide that is has an affinity to stick inside the the mitochondria.
- What a pile of dark leafy greens, which has a high level of nitric oxide and that nitric oxide is produced when you chew in any sort of leafy green.
Examples
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Mediation of these changes by an endogenous vasodilator, nitric oxide (NO), has recently received considerable attention.
Academic text (1991) -
The other thing you want to be aware of is nitric acid.
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Five per cent nitric acid solution:
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I want water, cold water, lots of it, a probe, a saw, some nitric acid.
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We're making a new nitric oxide product.
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All the systems were melted at their core by nitric acid ...
Fiction book (1998) -
We have nitric acid, glycerine and a special mixture of my own.
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The students nervously pour nitric acid into beakers.
Fiction book (2002) -
I used some diluted nitric acid to etch a sword blade.
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The other thing you want to be aware of is nitric acid.
Synonyms
1
6.8
Containing or made from nitrogen
Having nitrogen in it
Compounds
- Specialized
2
4.6
A very strong, dangerous acid that can burn skin and is used to make fertilizers and explosives
- Specialized
Bacteria in soil that change nitrites into nitrates and help plants grow
- Specialized
A bacterium that turns nitrite into nitrate to help plants get nitrogen
Surface Forms
Morphology
nitric = nitrogen (transparent) = nitri + ic
The adjective is formed by the productive adjectival suffix '-ic' on the nitrogen stem, so knowing 'nitrogen' makes the meaning 'relating to nitrogen' clear.
Etymology
Nitric comes from the same root as nitrogen and from nitre, an old word for 'saltpetre' that people found in soil. So, nitric means 'relating to or containing nitrogen'.