Definition of Nitration

1. Noun. (chemistry) The reaction of something with nitric acid; especially such a reaction, in the presence of sulphuric acid, to introduce a nitro functional group into a compound. ¹

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Definition of Nitration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitration

nitranilic
nitraniline
nitranilines
nitratase
nitrate
nitrate bacterium
nitrate of soda
nitrate reductase
nitrate reductases
nitrate respiration
nitrated
nitrates
nitratian
nitratine
nitrating
nitration (current term)
nitrations
nitrative
nitratocuprate
nitrator
nitrators
nitrazepam
nitre of potash
nitrendipine
nitrene
nitrenes
nitrenium
nitreniums
nitrenoid

Literary usage of Nitration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"Nitric acid high, sulfuric acid low; temperature low, nitration process fully six hours, cotton floated to top of batch during nitration period and required ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"A STUDY OF THE BROMINATION AND nitration OF ... and of Bogert and Cook.9 According to our experience, the satisfactory nitration of ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1901)
"A. Influence of Water upon the Process of nitration (continued). WITH 16 6 per cent water (experiment 5), we get a completely soluble product, and with this ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The nitration is carried out in a series of iron pots, termed ' clippers,' ... The nitration is allowed to proceed for from S to 24 hours, according to the ..."

5. Notes on Military Explosives by Erasmus Morgan Weaver (1912)
"The nitration of Cellulose. For military explosives, the cellulose used for nitration is, as a rule, the waste from cotton-spinning factories, cotton-cloth ..."

6. Notes on Military Explosives by Erasmus Morgan Weaver (1917)
"The nitration of Cellulose. For military explosives, the cellulose used for nitration is, as a rule, the waste from cotton-spinning factories, cotton-cloth ..."

7. The Electronic Conception of Valence and the Constitution of Benzene by Harry Shipley Fry (1921)
"These schemes constituted the electronic explanation of the nitration reactions conducted by Wibaut, Holleman and Wibaut, respectively, who determined the ..."

8. The Manufacture of Explosives: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Oscar Guttmann (1895)
"The Actien-Gesellschaft Dynamit Nobel have patented a new process of nitration. It is their intention to drive out the ai* VOL. II. ..."

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