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nounnitrat (plural nitrats)
plural nitrats
- obsoletechemistrya salt or ester of nitric acid; nitrate.
The tartareous acid has no direct action on lead, but added to the red oxyd it whitens it, and if a few drops of the acid in solution be poured into the liquid nitrat, or any other soluble salt of lead, a white pulverulent tartrite of lead is separated.
1807, Aikin, C. R., Comp., Dictionary Of Chemistry And Mineralogy Vol. 2, page 26
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