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Definitions: Nitrate |
NitrateNoun1. The radical -NO3 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid). Verb1. Treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nitrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Nitrate \Ni"trate\, noun. [Compare to the French expression nitrate.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | The nitrogen ion, NO3-, is derived from nitric acid and is an important source of nitrogen in fertilizers. Nitrate pollution of drinking water, shallow wells being particularly vulnerable, is of concern because infants are especially sensitive. A nitrate drinking water standard has been set under the Safe Drinking Water Act. An Environmental Protection Agency national survey of drinking water wells conducted from 1988 to 1990 indicated that 2.4% of rural domestic wells contained nitrate at or above the 10 mg/L standard. Higher rates of contamination have been found in areas of high vulnerability; for example, surveys along the upper Des Moines river indicate that 20 to 30% of wells exceed the standard. (references) |
Environment | A compound containing nitrogen that can exist in the atmosphere or as a dissolved gas in water and which can have harmful effects on humans and animals. Nitrates in water can cause severe illness in infants and domestic animals. A plant nutrient and inorganic fertilizer, nitrate is found in septic systems, animal feed lots, agricultural fertilizers, manure, industrial waste waters, sanitary landfills, and garbage dumps. (references) |
Mining | A. A salt of nitric acid; e.g., silver nitrate or barium nitrate b. A mineral compound characterized by a fundamental anionic structure of NO3- . Soda niter, NaNO3 , and niter, KNO3 , are nitrates. CF:carbonate; borate c. Salts formed by the action of nitric acid on metallic oxides, hydroxides, and carbonates. Readily soluble in water and decompose when heated. The nitrates of polyhydric alcohols and the alkyl radicals explodeviolently e.g., silver nitrate or barium nitrate. (references) |
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A nitrate salt forms if a positively charged ion attaches to one of the negatively charged oxygen atoms of the nitrate ion.Nitrates such as potassium nitrate (saltpetre) and ammonium nitrate are an important source of nitrogen in fertilizers.
Nitrates are also oxidizing agentss. When mixed with hydrocarbons or carbohydrates, nitrates can form a flammable or even explosive mixture. For example, potassium nitrate is the oxidizing ingredient in black gunpowder.
In Medicine, Nitrates such as nitroglycerin and isosorbide mono- and di- nitrates are particularly useful for prevention and treatment of angina pectoris. However they can cause a dangerous reaction if taken within 24 hrs of taking Viagra or sildenafil citrate.
Nitrates covered in Wikipedia include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nitrate."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| AM NIT | English | Ammonium Nitrate | Chemistry |
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Screenplays | I have pornographic movies in my apartment, and lubricants, and amyl nitrate (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) The Asgard would never invent a weapon that propels small weights of iron and carbon alloys, by igniting a powder of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
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 | Irwin Rosenfeld, nitrate film specialist. |  | Range scientist Patricia Bartling reviews land use data for the Sycamore Creek watershed in Michigan for inclusion in NLEAP - a computer program developed to predict potential leaching of nitrate nitrogen and its impact on underlying aquifers. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | [Men filling sacks with Nitrate of Soda] / [USDA photo].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Loading nitrate at Concepción, Paraguay.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical transformers in one of the TVA plants in the Muscle Shoals area, producing war materials by gas synthesis. These plants make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the man.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mot Tucker in kitchen of his corncrib home. Note nitrate of soda sacks used for shades in windows. Antioch, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was not without difficulty that the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver brought the gangrene to an end. |
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Health | The strips detect nitrite, which is formed when bacteria change nitrate in the urine to nitrite. (references) | |
Business | By the year 2005, propellants based on sodium azide will be substituted by hybrid propellants, tetrazole, ammonium/ helium nitrate and hydrogen. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Additionally, oil-related contamination (caused by gasoline) and nitrate and polyhlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin pollution are also problems. (references) |
Bolivia | Bolivia's weakness was demonstrated during the War of the Pacific (1879-83), when it lost its seacoast and the adjoining rich nitrate fields to Chile. (references) | |
Chile | As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia (1879-83), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence. (references) | |
Political Economy | PERU | Import licenses have been abolished for all products except firearms, munitions and explosives; chemical precursors (used in illegal narcotics production); ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs); wild plant and animal species; and some radio and communication equipment. (references) |
Trade | Peru | The only remaining products requiring licenses are firearms, munitions and explosives imported by private persons, chemical precursors (applicable to cocaine production) and ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs. (references) |
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| "Nitrate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Nitrate" is used about 450 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.78% | 449 | 12,949 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 450 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nitrate": aluminum nitrate ♦ ammonium nitrate ♦ amyl nitrate ♦ calcium magnesium nitrate ♦ calcium nitrate ♦ cellulose nitrate ♦ ceric ammonium nitrate ♦ gallium nitrate ♦ glycerin nitrate ♦ nitrate bacterium ♦ nitrate de cellulose ♦ nitrate of lime and magnesium ♦ nitrate of silver ♦ nitrate of soda ♦ nitrate of sodium ♦ peroxyacetyl nitrate ♦ potassium nitrate ♦ radical nitrate NO3 ♦ silver nitrate ♦ sodium nitrate ♦ solution of nitrate of silver ♦ uranyl nitrate. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "nitrate": nitrate-ammonium, nitrate-based, nitrate-bearing, nitrate-free, nitrate-fuel, nitrate-produced, nitrate-removal, nitrate-removing, nitrate-rich, nitrate-sensitive. | |
Ending with "nitrate": ammonia-nitrite-nitrate, high-nitrate, low-nitrate, organo-nitrate, tri-nitrate, X-nitrate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
potassium nitrate | 164 |
silver nitrate | 130 |
amyl nitrate | 99 |
ammonium nitrate | 94 |
nitrate | 94 |
sodium nitrate | 86 |
andro fuel nitrate | 45 |
calcium nitrate | 37 |
miconazole nitrate | 24 |
andro nitrate | 20 |
magnesium nitrate | 17 |
ammonia nitrate | 16 |
nitrate silver stick | 13 |
3 andro fuel nitrate | 11 |
econazole nitrate | 10 |
aluminum nitrate | 10 |
nitrate in urine | 10 |
amonium nitrate | 8 |
copper nitrate | 8 |
ammonium bin nitrate | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "nitrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nitritoj, nitrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نترت, نترات ملح حامض النتريك, نترات الصوديوم (niter, nitre, saltpeter, saltpetre), عالج بالنتريت. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нитрирам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 硝酸盐. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nitrát, dusiènan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nitrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nitraat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nitraatti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nitrate. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nitrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νιτρικό άλασ, νιτρικό αλάτι, νιτρικό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח ק". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nitrát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nitrato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 硝酸塩 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうさ"え". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 질산. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | naitraidey, naitraid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itratenay nitrato. (various references) nitrat, trata cu acid nitric, azotat (nitrogenous). (various references) нитрат. (various references) nitrovati (nitrify), nitrat. (various references) nitrato. (various references) nitrat. (various references) สารประกอบไนโตรเจน. (various references) nitrik aside doymak, nitrik aside batırmak, nitratlamak (nitride), nitrat. (various references) нітрувати (niter, nitre, nitrify, nitrogenize), нітрат, азотнокисла сіль. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "nitrate": nitrated, nitrates. (additional references) | |
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"Nitrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Intrare, intreate, naturata, Navratil, Negrete, neqrita, nichrome, Nitra, nitrene, nitrine, norate, nostratic, Nthato, Ntiwane, ritratto, titrate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nitrate" (pronounced nī"trā't) |
| 4 | -t r ā' t | administrate, arbitrate, castrate, concentrate, demonstrate, frustrate, illustrate, infiltrate, magistrate, orchestrate, penetrate, perpetrate, substrate. |
| 3 | -r ā' t | airfreight, aspirate, birthrate, calibrate, carbohydrate, celebrate, consecrate, denigrate, disintegrate, emigrate, gyrate, hydrate, immigrate, integrate, migrate, narrate, reintegrate, serrate, vertebrate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: intreat, iterant, nattier, tertian. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: attire, natter, ratine, ratite, ratten, retain, retina, retint, tinter. | |
-2 letters: antre, entia, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, retia, riant, taint, tater, tenia, terai, tetra, tinea, titan, titer, titre, train, trait, treat, trine, trite. | |
-3 letters: airn, airt, ante, anti, earn, etna, near, neat, nett, nite, rain, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rite, tain, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tire, tret. | |
-4 letters: ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, ire, nae, net, nit, ran, rat, rei, ret, ria, rin, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, re, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attainer, gnattier, interact, intranet, intreats, martinet, nitrated, nitrates, reattain, retirant, straiten, tertians, treating, triptane. | |
+2 letters: anorthite, argentite, attainder, attainers, battering, carnotite, certainty, crepitant, deratting, entertain, instanter, integrate, interacts, intimater, intranets, intreated, intricate, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, martinets, maternity, mattering, natrolite, nattering, orientate, paternity, patienter, pattering, rattening, reattains, reinstate, resistant, restating, restraint, retasting, retirants, stationer, sterilant, straitens, targeting, tattering, tearstain, terminate, threating, transient, transited, trepidant, tribunate, triptanes, trivalent, turbinate, yattering. | |
+3 letters: alteration, anorthites, anthracite, antierotic, antihunter, antilitter, antimarket, antimatter, antinature, antistress, antistrike, antitrades, aquatinter, argentites, astringent, attainders, blattering, brattiness, cantatrice, carnotites, centralist, centrality, certainest, chattering, clattering, detracting, detraction, entertains, entreaties, entreating, eructating, eructation, estreating, exorbitant, extracting, extraction, flattering, fraternity, impartment, infiltrate, ingratiate, integrated, integrates, integrator, intenerate, interacted, intercaste, interfaith, intergraft, interparty, interplant, interstage, interstate, intertidal, intertrial, intimaters, intolerant, intraplate, intrastate, intreating, inveterate, iterations, itinerants, itinerated, itinerates, literation, marionette, martensite, monetarist, natrolites, negotiator, neutralist, neutrality, orientated, orientates, pargetting, parturient, patterning, portamenti, pretasting, quaternity, ratcheting, reattained, recitation, refutation, registrant, reinitiate, reinstated, reinstates, remittance, reputation, resistants, restarting, restraints, retracting, retraction, retransmit, retreating, scattering, shattering, smattering, spattering, stationers, stationery, stentorian, sterilants, straighten, straitened, straitness, tanistries, tantalizer, tearstains, tenantries, terminated, terminates, terminator, tetracaine, tetrazzini, thorianite, tolerating, toleration, torrential, trabeation, trajecting, trajection, transients, transitive, travertine, tribunates, tripinnate, tristearin, truantries, tryptamine, turbinated, turbinates, ventilator. | |
+4 letters: actinometer, actinometry, adventurist, alterations, altercating, altercation, alternating, alternation, alternative, anorthosite, anteverting, anthracites, anticruelty, antimatters, antinatures, antineutron, antipoverty, antipyretic, antirealist, antistories, antistrophe, antitruster, aquatinters, arbitrament, astringents, attempering, betattering, botheration, cantatrices, centralists, centripetal, certainties, clarinetist, contractile, contractive, contrariety, contrastive, creationist, crepitating, crepitation, curtailment, deportation, determinant, determinate, detractions, detrainment, detrimental, deuterating, deuteration, elutriating, elutriation, entertained, entertainer, entrainment, erotization, eructations, exhortation, exportation, exterminate, externality, extirpating, extirpation, extractions, extraditing, extradition, extricating, extrication, forestation, foretasting, fractionate, handwritten, heartstring, impartments, impetrating, impetration, importunate, inadvertent, infiltrated, infiltrates, ingratiated, ingratiates, ingratitude, ingurgitate, integrality, integrating, integration, integrative, integrators, intemperate, intenerated, intenerates, interactant, interacting, interaction, interactive, interatomic, intercalate, intercostal, intercrater, interdental, intergrafts, internality, interplants, interpolate, interrelate, interrogate, interstates, interstrain, interstrand, intertribal, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, itinerantly, itinerating, itineration, literations, maltreating, marionettes, martensites, martensitic, maternities, metacentric, metrication, mistreating, monetarists, natriuretic, negotiators, negotiatory, neutralists, nonliterate, orientalist, orientating, orientation, overstating, parenthetic, partitioned, partitioner, parturients, paternalist, paternities, patternings, penetrating, penetration, penetrative, permutation, pertinacity, petitionary, potentiator, precipitant, pretreating, ratiocinate, rattlebrain, readmitting, reallotting, reattaching, reattacking, reattaining, recantation, recitations, refutations, registrants, reinitiated, reinitiates, reinstating, reintegrate, reiterating, reiteration, reluctating, reluctation, remittances, renegotiate, rentability, reorientate, repartition, reputations, restoration, retaliating, retaliation, retardation, retargeting, retinopathy, retractions, retransmits, retroacting, retroaction, scatterings, smatterings, splattering, squattering, straightens, straitening, tantalizers, tapestrying, tearstained, teratogenic, terminating, termination, terminative, terminators, tetracaines, thorianites, threatening, throatiness, tolerations, trabeations, trajections, tranquilest, transecting, transection, transfinite, transiently, translative, transmitted, transmitter, trapnesting, travertines, travestying, trepanation, trepidation, triangulate, tristearins, tryptamines, uncertainty, unresistant, unrestraint, ventilators, ventilatory, vinaigrette. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 74 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. - .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i t r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0074 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48758684678671 |
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