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Where does “nitrate” come from?

Nitrate comes from French nitrate, derived from niter (potassium nitrate) combined with the chemical suffix -ate.

nitrate (English): Any salt or ester of nitric acid; To treat, or...

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of nitric acid; To treat, or...

Ancestry of “nitrate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnitratenitrate

Words derived from “nitrate”

  • nitration
  • dinitrate
  • trinitrate
  • mononitrate
  • subnitrate
  • tetranitrate
  • protonitrate
  • nitrative
  • pernitrate
  • denitration
  • nitrator
  • hexanitrate
  • oxynitrate
  • nitratine
  • trisnitrate
  • mononitration
  • orthonitrate
  • nitratite
  • nitratocuprate
  • alkylnitrate
  • nitratian
  • denitrator
  • organonitrate
  • propatylnitrate
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