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- 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.
- English Word Nitro- Definition A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene.
- English Word Nitro-chloroform Definition Same as Chlorpicrin.
- English Word Nitrobenzene Definition A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.
- English Word Nitrobenzol Definition Alt. of Nitrobenzole
- English Word Nitrobenzole Definition See Nitrobenzene.
- English Word Nitrocalcite Definition Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.
- English Word Nitrocarbol Definition See Nitromethane.
- English Word Nitrocellulose Definition See Gun cotton, under Gun.
- English Word Nitroform Definition A nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, CH.(NO2)3, quite explosive, and having well-defined acid properties.
- English Word Nitrogelatin Definition An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.