nitrate

Borrowed from French nitrate.

• (US) enPR: nī'trāt, IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪˌtɹeɪt/, [ˈnaɪ̯ˌtʰɹeɪ̯t]

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• Rhymes: -aɪtɹeɪt

nitrate (plural nitrates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
   • 1992 March 10, “Removal of Nitrates”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium and potassium nitrates. Numerous water wells have had to be abandoned because of the lack of a way to deal with the problem.

   • 2003 August 11, Paul Brown, “Nitrate pollution raises water bills”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The underground water which feeds Britain's springs and rivers and provides a third of its drinking water is becoming seriously polluted with nitrates, causing a threat to wildlife and landing consumers with a big purification bill.

   • 2018 March 1, Bee Wilson, “Yes, bacon really is killing us”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The pinkness of bacon – or cooked ham, or salami – is a sign that it has been treated with chemicals, more specifically with nitrates and nitrites.

nitrate (third-person singular simple present nitrates, present participle nitrating, simple past and past participle nitrated)

1. To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

• nitration
• nitrative
• nitrator

• nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• intreat, iterant, natrite, nattier, tainter, tartine, tertian

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• IPA^(key): /ni.tʁat/

nitrate m (plural nitrates)

1. nitrate

   Synonym: (rare) azotate

• “nitrate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• attenir, entrait, étirant, inertât, itérant, rentait, tartine

• IPA^(key): /niˈtra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: ni‧trà‧te

nitrate

1. inflection of nitrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

nitrate

1. feminine plural of nitrato

nitrate f pl

1. feminine plural of nitrato

• entrati, intrate, nettari, ritenta, tartine, ternati, tirante, traenti

nitrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of nitrar combined with te