Nitrous Acid

Definition: Nitrous Acid

Nitrous Acid

Noun

1. An unstable inorganic acid known only in solution and as nitrite salts.

Crosswords: Nitrous Acid

English words defined with "nitrous acid": Azotite, Azotous ♦ Elaidic acid ♦ Gay Lussac's tower, Glover's tower ♦ -ite ♦ Nitranilic, nitrify, nitrite ♦ Ricinelaidin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "nitrous acid": COLOR MAKER ♦ Gay-Lussac's tower ♦ trace gas. (references)

Nitrous acid weak monobasic acid known only in solution and in the form of nitrite salts. Formula: HNO₂ Systematic name: dioxonitric(III) acid

See also: nitric acid (HNO₃)

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Language		Translations for "nitrous acid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		salpetersyrling. (various references)

Dutch		salpeterigzuur. (various references)

Finnish		typpihapon katodinen pelkistyminen typpihapokkeeksi (cathodic reduction of nitric to nitrous acid). (various references)

French		acidum nitrosum, acide nitreux. (various references)

German		salpetrige Saeure. (various references)

Greek		νιτρώδεσ οξύ. (various references)

Italian		acido nitroso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		亜硝酸 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あしょうさ�". (various references)

Pig Latin		itrousnay aciday

Portuguese		concentração invernal de ácido nitroso (winter concentration of nitrous acid). (various references)

Russian		азотистая кислота. (various references)

Spanish		ácido nitroso. (various references)

Thai		กร�"ไนตรัส เป็นกร�"�"ินประสิว. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-i-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: indicators.
	-2 letters: actinoids, auditions, custodian, durations, indicator, indictors, inductors, saturniid, suctorian.
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	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-i-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	+3 letters: contradictious, jurisdictional, reduplications.
	+4 letters: disarticulation.
	+5 letters: antireductionism, antireductionist, decarburizations, disarticulations, jurisdictionally, quadruplications, submitochondrial.
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