nitric

English

Etymology

From nitro- +‎ -ic, compare French nitrique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪtɹɪk/

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Adjective

nitric (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.
   • 1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58:

     In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken with the aræometer seem greater than it actually is.

Derived terms

• hydronitric acid
• nitric acid
• nitric ether
• nitric oxide
• sulfonitric
• sulfonitric acid, sulphonitric acid
• sulphonitric

Translations

pertaining to nitrogen

Bulgarian: азотен (azoten) Catalan: nítric Esperanto: nitrata French: nitrique (fr) Greek: νιτρικός (el) (nitrikós) Irish: nítreach Italian: nitrico (it) Polish: azotowy (pl) Portuguese: nítrico (pt) Russian: азо́тный (ru) (azótnyj) Serbo-Croatian: azotni (sh) Spanish: nítrico (es)

Noun

nitric (uncountable)

1. Nitric acid.

Anagrams

• tricin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nitrique.

Adjective

nitric m or n (feminine singular nitrică, masculine plural nitrici, feminine/neuter plural nitrice)

1. nitric

Declension

Declension of nitric

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	nitric		nitrică		nitrici	nitrice
	definite	nitricul		nitrica		nitricii	nitricele
genitive- dative	indefinite	nitric		nitrice		nitrici	nitrice
	definite	nitricului		nitricei		nitricilor	nitricelor