Vocabulary : Nitrometer to Nitroso-
Nitrometer : An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.Nitromethane : A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
Nitromuriatic : Of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. See Nitrohydrochloric.
Nitrophnol : Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of phenol. They are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.
Nitroprussic : Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.
