nitrite : Idioms & Phrases
Amyl nitrite
- a yellow oily volatile liquid, used in medicine as a depressant and a vaso-dilator. Its inhalation produces an instantaneous flushing of the face.
Webster 1913
butyl nitrite
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noun a colorless pungent liquid sometimes used as a stimulant drug by drug abusers
butyl nitrite.
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isobutyl nitrite
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noun a colorless pungent liquid sometimes used as a stimulant drug by drug abusers
butyl nitrite.
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nitrite bacterium
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noun any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites
nitrous bacterium.
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sodium nitrite
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noun nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens
