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Nitric [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Impregnated with niter. nitric acid is the acid saturated with oxygen, or an acid composed of oxygen and nitrogen or azote.

Nitric [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.