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Sodium Nitrite

Definition: Sodium Nitrite

Sodium Nitrite

Noun

1. Nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Sodium Nitrite

DomainDefinition

Health

Nitrous acid sodium salt. Used in many industrial processes, in meat curing, coloring, and preserving, and as a reagent in analytical chemistry. It is used therapeutically as an antidote in cyanide poisoning. The compound is toxic and mutagenic and will react in vivo with secondary or tertiary amines thereby producing highly carcinogenic nitrosamines. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sodium Nitrite

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Books

  • Don't Bring Home the Bacon: How Sodium Nitrite Can Affect Your Health (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sodium Nitrite

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Health

Repeated exposure to nitrite compounds can result in a dull, pounding headache that may be accompanied by a flushed face. Nitrite, which dilates blood vessels, is found in such products as heart medicine and dynamite, but is also used as a chemical to preserve meat. Hot dogs and other processed meats containing sodium nitrite can cause headaches. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sodium Nitrite

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sodium nitrite

37
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Modern Translation: Sodium Nitrite

Language Translations for "sodium nitrite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

natriumnitrit, E250. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

natriumnitriet, E250. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

natriumnitriitti (E250), E 250 (E250). (various references)

   

French

  

nitrite de sodium, E250. (various references)

   

German

  

Natriumnitrit (E250), E250 (E250). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sodio nitrito (E250), E250 (E250). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

亜硝酸ナトリウ . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あしょうさ"ナトリウ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odiumsay itritenay

   

Portuguese

  

nitrito de sódio (E250), E250 (E250). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

natriumnitrit (E250), E 250 (E250). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sodium Nitrite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-i-m-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: rotundities.

-3 letters: detritions, eruditions, iridosmine, minorities, mistutored, triunities, tumidities.

-4 letters: denturist, detrition, disorient, erudition, intermits, intromits, intrusted, misorient, misrouted, modernist, outstride, retinitis, retinoids, rudiments, strontium, trinities, undermost, untidiest.

-5 letters: demonist, demotist, demounts, derision, detritus, diestrum, dimerous, dimities, diorites, diriment, dirtiest, disinter, dismount, disunite, dominies, dormient, dourines, editions, idiotism, inditers, interims, intermit, intimist, intorted, introits.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-i-m-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: antireductionism.

 

+4 letters: antireductionisms.

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Alternative Orthography: Sodium Nitrite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 64 69 75 6D      4E 69 74 72 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01100100 01101001 01110101 01101101 00100000 01001110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#100 &#105 &#117 &#109 &#32 &#78 &#105 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0064 0069 0075 006D      004E 0069 0074 0072 0069 0074 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538170758779248758684758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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