nitric acid

English

Noun

nitric acid (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A transparent, colorless to pale yellow, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO₃; a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial processes; once called aqua fortis.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Instantly a little vapour arose from it, as happens when one disturbs nitric acid, and this sight did not increase my hopes, already faint enough, of the efficacy of the treatment.

Derived terms

• red fuming nitric acid
• white fuming nitric acid

 

Related terms

• nitrate
• nitro-

Translations

HNO₃

• Arabic: حمض النتريك (ḥamḍ an-nitrīk)

  Egyptian Arabic: أزوتيك (azutīk), متريول (matriyōl), ميّة النار (mayyit in-nār)

  Iraqi Arabic: تيزاب (tīzāb)

• Armenian: ազոտական թթու (azotakan tʻtʻu)
• Azerbaijani: nitrat turşusu
• Catalan: àcid nítric m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硝酸 (zh) (xiāosuān)

• Czech: kyselina dusičná f
• Danish: salpetersyre (da) c, hydrogennitrat c or n
• Dutch: salpeterzuur (nl)
• Esperanto: nitracido, nitrata acido
• Finnish: typpihappo (fi)
• French: acide nitrique (fr) m, acide azotique (fr) m
• German: Salpetersäure (de) f
• Greek: νιτρικό οξύ (nitrikó oxý)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: salétromsav (hu)
• Indonesian: asam nitrat (id)
• Irish: aigéad nítreach m
• Italian: acido nitrico (it) m
• Japanese: 硝酸 (ja) (しょうさん, shōsan)
• Javanese: asem nitrat
• Khmer: ទឹកក្រាម (tɨk kraam)
• Korean: 질산(窒酸) (ko) (jilsan), 초산(硝酸) (ko) (chosan)
• Latvian: slāpekļskābe f
• Maori: waikawa hauota
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: salpetersyre m or f

  Nynorsk: salpetersyre f

• Ottoman Turkish: كذاب صویی (kezzap suyu)
• Persian: نیتریک اسید (nitrik asid), تیزآب (tiz-âb), جوهر شوره (jowhar-e šure)
• Polish: kwas azotowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ácido nítrico m
• Romanian: acid nitric (ro) m, acid azotic (ro) m
• Russian: азо́тная кислота́ (ru) f (azótnaja kislotá)
• Spanish: ácido nítrico m
• Swedish: salpetersyra (sv) c
• Tagalog: agwa-puwerte
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: กรดไนตริก (gròt-nai-dtrìk)
• Turkish: kezzap suyu, nitrik asit (tr)
• Uzbek: nitrat kislotasi
• Vietnamese: axit nitric
• Welsh: asid nitrig m

Further reading

• nitric acid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia