nitrite

See also: Nitrite

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: nī'trīt, IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪtɹaɪt

Noun

nitrite (countable and uncountable, plural nitrites)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitrous acid.
   • 1978 May 16, Seth S. King, “Nitrate Reduction Ordered in Bacon”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     John Birdsall, a scientist for the American Meat Institute, said that there were no industry qualms about trying to lower the nitrite amounts even farther. For centuries, some form of nitrites have been used to cure and to preserve bacon and to give it a pink color.

2. (chemistry) The univalent radical -NO₂, and the anion NO₂^-

Derived terms

• alkyl nitrite
• amyl nitrite
• butyl nitrite
• cyclohexyl nitrite
• ethyl nitrite
• isoamyl nitrite
• isopropyl nitrite
• nitrite reductase
• nitritoid
• potassium nitrite
• sodium nitrite
• sulfonitrite, sulphonitrite

 

Translations

salt or ester of nitrous acid

• Bulgarian: нитрит m (nitrit)
• Catalan: nitrit m
• Czech: dusitan (cs) m, nitrit (cs) m
• Esperanto: nitrito (eo), azotito
• Finnish: nitraatti (fi)
• German: Nitrit (de) n
• Hungarian: nitrit (hu)
• Icelandic: nítrít n
• Ido: nitrito (io)
• Irish: nítrít f
• Italian: nitrito (it)
• Polish: azotyn m
• Portuguese: nitrito m
• Spanish: nitrito m
• Swedish: nitrit (sv)

-NO₂ and NO₂^-

• Finnish: nitraatti (fi)
• Irish: nítrít f
• Italian: nitrito (it)
• Portuguese: nitrito m
• Spanish: nitrito m

Anagrams

• nittier

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

nitrite m (plural nitrites)

1. nitrite

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

nitrite

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

Etymology 2

Participle

nitrite f pl

1. feminine plural of nitrito

Anagrams

• ritenti, ritinte