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nitrate Chem Noun 1. a salt or ester of nitric acid 2. a fertilizer containing nitrate salts Verb [-trating, -trated] 1. to treat with nitric acid or a nitrate 2. to convert or be converted into a nitrate nitration n
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The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in. I will even add, that if we mix it with one-eighth of its own weight of nitrate of potassium, its expansive force is again considerably augmented. I was running blackbird labour from the west South Pacific and the Coral Sea to the plantations of Hawaii and the nitrate mines of Chili--" |
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