nitric

CEFRB2

/ˈnaɪtɹɪk/

adjective

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She needed 10.5 liters of nitric acid for the experiment.
The original acid test used hydrochloric and nitric acid to distinguish gold from base metals.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken with the aræometer seem greater than it actually is.
1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58

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From nitro- + -ic, compare French nitrique.