¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nitrites
1. nitrite [n] - See also: nitrite
Medical Definition of Nitrites
1. Salts of nitrous acid or compounds containing the group no2-. The inorganic nitrites of the type mno2 (where m=metal) are all insoluble, except the alkali nitrites. The organic nitrites may be isomeric, but not identical with the corresponding nitro compounds. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrites
Literary usage of Nitrites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"The action of nitrites and physiologically allied substances. By JS HALDANE, RH
MAKGILL and AE MAVROGORDATO. We have investigated the action as poisons, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"nitrites are frequently found in the well-water of towns, the nitrous acid being
... Reactions of nitrites.—nitrites are colourless or slightly yellow, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"THE use of the nitrites as therapeutic agents in medicine has passed through ...
The establishment of this action served to bring the nitrites into great ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"The decolorization was affected in the cold, as heating increases the nitrites,
by shaking up about 250 cc. of the water with three cc. of " milk of alumina ..."
5. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"THE nitrites. The nitrites have^ a powerful action on the ... The metallic nitrates
differ entirely from the nitrites in their effects and are used as ..."
6. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"X. as nitrites. 50 cc of the sample is used and is found to equal 0.5 cc of ...
N. as nitrites and one liter will contain 20 X 0.00025 or 0.005 mg. of X. or ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"In making lately some experiments on certain nitrites, I observed a reaction,
which, as far as I am aware, has not hitherto been described ; and this being ..."
8. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1906)
"Sewage mixtures and sewage polluted streams show nitrites in aa greater or less
... Is it safe to assume that in all these cases the nitrites are the second ..."
Other Resources:
