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Nitrate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A salt formed by the union of the nitric acid with a base; as nitrate of soda.

Nitrate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A salt of nitric acid.

Nitrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Combined with niter.

Nitrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.

2. Prepared with nitrate of silver.

Nitrates Encyclopedia Britannica

NITRATES, NITRE, NITRIC ACID. See Nitrogen.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 515
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