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nds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid. Nitric acid, a colorless or yellowish liquid obtained by distilling a nitrate with sulphuric acid. It is powerfully corrosive, being a strong acid, and in decomposition a strong oxidizer. -- Nitric anhy…

fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

ning to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo. [R.]

gia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolving gold, the "royal" metal. -- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th ce…

Nitric acid. [Archaic]

d -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid. [R.]

Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. [R.] Carpenter.

in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.

monia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid. -- Chem`o*syn*thet"ic (#), a.

A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.

metimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.

ystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. -- Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.

genous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.

y coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. Tomlinson.

Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.

with minerals; as, mineral waters. Mineral acids (Chem.), inorganic acids, as sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, hydrochloric, acids, etc., as distinguished from the organic acids. -- Mineral blue, the name usually given to azurite, when reduced to an impalpable powder for coloring purposes. -- Mineral candle, a candle…