nitrate
Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
A kind of
- compound
Kinds of nitrate
- calcium nitrate
- cellulose nitrate
- sodium nitrate
- potassium nitrate
- nitroglycerin
- ammonium nitrate
- silver nitrate
- aluminium nitrate
Related words
- alkylnitrate
- ammonitrate
- denitrate
- hexanitrate
- nitratite
- nitratocuprate
- organonitrate
- orthonitrate
- pernitrate
- propatylnitrate
- protonitrate
- tetranitrate
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nitrate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.