nitric acid

A transparent, colorless to yellowish, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO₃, a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial metallurgical processes. Also called aqua fortis.

nitric acid

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a colourless or yellowish fuming corrosive liquid usually used in aqueous solution. It is an oxidizing agent and a strong monobasic acid: important in the manufacture of fertilizers, explosives, and many other chemicals. Formula: HNO₃ Former name aqua fortis

nitric acid

A clear, colorless to yellow liquid that is very corrosive and can dissolve most metals. It is used to make fertilizers, explosives, dyes, and rocket fuels. Chemical formula: HNO₃.

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nitric acid - acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels

aqua fortis

acid - any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt

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acid precipitation
acid test
Adipic
aqua fortis
aqua regia
cellulose nitrate
Gun cotton
nitrate
Nitrated
nitration
nitric
nitrocellulose
nitrocotton
terebic acid
uranyl nitrate

Now cotton, combined with cold nitric acid, become transformed into a substance eminently insoluble, combustible, and explosive.

From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.

The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context