Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nitrate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nitrate \Ni"trate\, n. [Cf. F. nitrate.] (Chem.)
A salt of nitric acid.
{Nitrate of silver}, a white crystalline salt ({AgNO3}), used
in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also
{lunar caustic}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nitrate
n : the radical -NO3 or any compound containing it (such as a
salt or ester of nitric acid)
v : treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound
into a nitrate; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating
glycerol"
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