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Definition of Nitrous acid
1. Noun. An unstable inorganic acid known only in solution and as nitrite salts.
Definition of Nitrous acid
1. Noun. (inorganic compound) A weak acid, HNO2, known only in solution, or as its salts and esters, the nitrites; it has a linear structure, H-O-N=O ¹
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Medical Definition of Nitrous acid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrous Acid
Literary usage of Nitrous acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1921)
"nitrous acid never occurs in nature except in the form of its salts, ...
Preparation of nitrous acid and its Salts. — nitrous acid is formed by the gentle ..."
2. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"Lavoisier with two colleagues tried in vain to repeat Cavendish's experiment on
the conversion of the two airs into nitrous acid by means of the electric ..."
3. The Elements of Experimental Chemistry by William Henry, Robert Hare (1819)
"SECTION V. Of Per-nitrous Acid. WHEN 400 measures of nitrous gas and 100 measures
of oxygen' •'in which the nitrogen and oxygen are to each other by measure ..."
4. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1789)
"... A between nitrous acid and volatile alkali. The latter has frequently been
produced by help of the former; but I do not recoiled that, ..."
5. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Along with the reactions of nitric acid laid down in the foregoing section,
nitrous acid always displays the following characteristic reactions:— With ..."
6. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839)
"It is not enough to shew that in the nitrous acid, (that is, ... It is much more
consonant with experiment to suppose that nitrous acid is nothing more than ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"It is generated whenever moist sulphurous acid gas and nitrous acid vapour are
intermixed, being instantly deposited in the form of white acicular crystals ..."
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