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nitrite

See also: Nitrite

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Noun

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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-

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-NO2 and NO2-

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Noun

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nitrite m (plural nitrites)

  1. nitrite

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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nitrite

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

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nitrite f pl

  1. feminine plural of nitrito

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