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- English Word Nitency Definition Brightness; luster.
- English Word Nitency Definition Endeavor; rffort; tendency.
- English Word Niteosaccharin Definition An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.
- English Word Niter Definition Alt. of Nitre
- English Word Nithing Definition See Niding.
- English Word Nitid Definition Bright; lustrous; shining.
- English Word Nitid Definition Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons.
- English Word Nitranilic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.
- English Word Nitraniline Definition Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.
- English Word Nitrate Definition A salt of nitric acid.
- English Word Nitrated Definition Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.
- English Word Nitrated Definition Prepared with nitrate of silver.
- English Word Nitratine Definition A mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.
- English Word Nitre Definition A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
- English Word Nitre Definition Native sodium carbonate; natron.
- English Word Nitre Definition See Niter.
- English Word Nitriary Definition An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.
- English Word Nitric Definition Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.
- English Word Nitride Definition A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.
- English Word Nitriferous Definition Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.
- English Word Nitrification Definition The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.
- English Word Nitrification Definition The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.
- English Word Nitrification Definition A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.
- English Word Nitrified Definition of Nitrify
- English Word Nitrifier Definition An agent employed in nitrification.
- English Word Nitrify Definition To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.
- English Word Nitrifying Definition of Nitrify
- English Word Nitrile Definition Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.
- English Word Nitrite Definition A salt of nitrous acid.
- English Word Nitro- Definition A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.