Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
trinitrate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A nitrate formed from three molecules of nitric acid; also, less properly, applied to certain basic nitrates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry A
nitrate formed from threemolecules ofnitric acid . - noun chemistry, proscribed A
basic nitrate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The daily use of oil or pomatum, with which a few grains of carbonate of lead, lead plaster, or trisnitrate of bismuth, have been blended by heat and careful trituration, has generally a like effect on the hair to ferruginous solutions; so also has a leaden comb, but its action is very uncertain.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Five grains of extract of hop and five grains of trisnitrate of bismuth made into two pills, which are to be taken at eleven and repeated at four -- daily.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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