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Meanings of Niton:

noun

A former name for: the element radon.

Meanings of Nitons:

noun

A former name for: the element radon.

Meanings of Nitpick:

verb

Engage in fussy or pedantic fault-finding.

Usage examples:

The state is nitpicking about minor administrative matters

Meanings of Nitpickers:

noun

Someone who finds faults in details that are not important

Usage examples:

Some people may say i'm being a nitpicker., the nitpicker in me had to mention that the flat wasn't…

Meanings of Nitpicks:

verb

Engage in fussy or pedantic fault-finding.

Usage examples:

The state is nitpicking about minor administrative matters

Meanings of Nitratine:

noun

Native sodium nitrate, nano₃, crystallizing in the trigonal system and occurring as whitish efflorescences on soil or as granular crusts which are worked as a source of nitrate.

Meanings of Nitrating:

verb

Treat (a substance) with nitric acid, especially so as to introduce nitro groups.

Usage examples:

Nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

noun

A salt or ester of nitric acid, containing the anion no₃⁻ or the group —no₃

Usage examples:

Preserved meat and vegetables contain nitrates

Meanings of Nitridation:

noun

A reaction analogous to oxidation but involving nitrogen or ammonia rather than oxygen or water; (metallurgy) the process or an instance of nitriding an alloy.

Meanings of Nitriding:

noun

The process of heating steel in the presence of ammonia or other nitrogenous material so as to increase hardness and corrosion resistance.

Usage examples:

Gas nitriding may provide the means for achieving such strengthening

verb

Heat (steel) in the presence of ammonia or other nitrogenous material so as to increase hardness and corrosion resistance.

Usage examples:

It was nitrided for too short a time or at too low a temperature

Meanings of Nitrifaction:

noun

Nitrification.

Meanings of Nitriferous:

adjective

Containing or yielding nitre or (in later use) nitrogen.

Meanings of Nitrification:

noun

The process in which bacteria in the soil use oxygen to change compounds of nitrogen in dead plant material into nitrates which plants can then absorb as food

Meanings of Nitrified:

verb

Convert (ammonia or another nitrogen compound) into nitrites or nitrates.

Usage examples:

A considerable amount of the ammonia so formed is nitrified

Meanings of Nitrifying:

verb

Convert (ammonia or another nitrogen compound) into nitrites or nitrates.

Usage examples:

A considerable amount of the ammonia so formed is nitrified

Meanings of Nitrile:

noun

An organic compound containing a cyanide group —cn bound to an alkyl group.

Usage examples:

Secondary and tertiary amides are prepared by reacting primary amides or nitriles with organic acids.

Meanings of Nitriles:

noun

An organic compound containing a cyanide group —cn bound to an alkyl group.

Usage examples:

Secondary and tertiary amides are prepared by reacting primary amides or nitriles with organic acids.

Meanings of Nitrite:

noun

A salt or ester of nitrous acid, containing the anion no2− or the group —no2.

Meanings of Nitrites:

noun

A salt or ester of nitrous acid, containing the anion no2− or the group —no2.

Meanings of Nitroaniline:

noun

Each of three isomeric yellow or orange crystalline compounds, c₆ h₄ (no₂)(nh₂), which are derivatives of aniline having a nitro group attached to the carbon ring, and are used in the manufacture of dyes; nitrophenylamine.

Meanings of Nitrobacterium:

noun

Any nitrifying bacterium; especially one of the genus nitrobacter, which oxidizes nitrites to nitrates. usually in plural.

Meanings of Nitrobarite:

noun

Native barium nitrate, crystallizing in the cubic system and occurring as colourless octahedral crystals.

Meanings of Nitrobenzene:

noun

A yellow oily liquid made by nitrating benzene, used in chemical synthesis.

Usage examples:

When nitrobenzene is nitrated with nitric and sulfuric acids, for example, 93 percent of the substi…

Meanings of Nitrocalcite:

noun

Native hydrated calcium nitrate, crystallizing in the monoclinic system and occurring as a whitish efflorescence on soil and calcareous rocks.

Meanings of Nitrocotton:

noun

Guncotton.

Meanings of Nitroform:

noun

An explosive white crystalline compound, ch(no₂)₃, which is a derivative of methane having three nitro groups attached to the carbon atom; trinitromethane.