nitrate

See also: Nitrate and nitraté

English

Canonical forms of the nitrate ion, NO₃⁻, resonating.

Etymology

From French nitrate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: nī'trāt, IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪˌtɹeɪt/, [ˈnaɪ̯ˌtʰɹeɪ̯t]

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• Rhymes: -aɪtɹeɪt

Noun

nitrate (plural nitrates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
   • 1992 March 10, “Removal of Nitrates”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium and potassium nitrates. Numerous water wells have had to be abandoned because of the lack of a way to deal with the problem.

   • 2003 August 11, Paul Brown, “Nitrate pollution raises water bills”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The underground water which feeds Britain's springs and rivers and provides a third of its drinking water is becoming seriously polluted with nitrates, causing a threat to wildlife and landing consumers with a big purification bill.

   • 2018 March 1, Bee Wilson, “Yes, bacon really is killing us”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The pinkness of bacon – or cooked ham, or salami – is a sign that it has been treated with chemicals, more specifically with nitrates and nitrites.

Derived terms

• aluminium nitrate
• ammonia nitrate
• ammonium nitrate
• amyl nitrate
• assimilatory nitrate reductase
• barium nitrate
• beryllium nitrate
• cadmium nitrate
• caesium nitrate
• calcium nitrate
• cellulose nitrate
• ceric ammonium nitrate
• cesium nitrate
• copper nitrate
• dinitrate
• ethyl nitrate
• gallium nitrate
• guanidine nitrate
• hydrogen nitrate
• hydroxylammonium nitrate
• lead nitrate
• lithium nitrate
• magnesium nitrate
• mercuric nitrate
• mercurous nitrate
• mononitrate
• nickel nitrate
• nitrate bath
• nitrate of ammonia
• nitrate of amyl
• nitrate of baryta
• nitrate of bismuth
• nitrate of calcium
• nitrate of cobalt
• nitrate of copper
• nitrate of lead
• nitrate of lime
• nitrate of mercury
• nitrate of potash
• nitrate of potassium
• nitrate of silver
• nitrate of soda
• nitrate of sodium
• nitrate of strontia
• nitrate reductase
• nitrate reductase test
• nitrate vulnerable zone
• nitratian
• nitratine
• nitration
• oxalonitrate
• oxynitrate
• palladium nitrate
• peroxyacetyl nitrate
• plumbous nitrate
• plutonyl nitrate
• potassium nitrate
• promethium nitrate
• rubidium nitrate
• silver-copper nitrate
• silver nitrate
• sodium nitrate
• strontium nitrate
• subnitrate
• sulfonitrate
• sulphonitrate
• tellurium nitrate
• thorium nitrate
• uranic nitrate
• uranium nitrate
• uranyl nitrate

 

Translations

any salt or ester of nitric acid

• Basque: nitrato (eu)
• Bulgarian: нитрат f (nitrat)
• Catalan: nitrat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硝酸鹽／硝酸盐 (zh) (xiāo suān yán)

• Danish: nitrat (da) n
• Dutch: nitraat (nl)
• Esperanto: nitrato (eo), azotato
• Faroese: nitrat n
• Finnish: nitraatti (fi)
• French: nitrate (fr) m, azotate (fr) m (rare)
• German: Nitrat (de) n
• Hindi: भूयातती (bhūyāttī)
• Hungarian: nitrát (hu)
• Icelandic: nítrat n
• Ido: nitrato (io)
• Italian: nitrato (it) m
• Malay: nitrat (ms)
• Maori: pākawa ota, pākawaota
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nitrat (no) n

  Nynorsk: nitrat n

• Polish: azotan (pl) m
• Portuguese: nitrato (pt) m, azotato m
• Romanian: nitrat (ro)
• Russian: нитра́т (ru) m (nitrát)
• Slovak: dusičnan m, nitrát m
• Spanish: nitrato m
• Swedish: nitrat (sv) n
• Turkish: nitrat (tr)
• Welsh: nitrad m

Verb

nitrate (third-person singular simple present nitrates, present participle nitrating, simple past and past participle nitrated)

1. To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

Related terms

• nitration
• nitrator

Translations

To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

• Bulgarian: нитрирам (nitriram)
• French: nitrater (fr)
• Welsh: nitradu

Further reading

• nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• intreat, iterant, natrite, nattier, tainter, tartine, tertian

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.tʁat/

Noun

nitrate m (plural nitrates)

1. nitrate

   Synonym: (rare) azotate

Further reading

• “nitrate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• attenir, entrait, étirant, inertât, itérant, rentait, tartine

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈtra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: ni‧trà‧te

Etymology 1

Verb

nitrate

1. inflection of nitrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Adjective

nitrate

1. feminine plural of nitrato

Participle

nitrate f pl

1. feminine plural of nitrato

Anagrams

• entrati, intrate, nettari, ritenta, tartine, ternati, tirante, traenti

Spanish

Verb

nitrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of nitrar combined with te