# nitrate
## English
### Etymology

From French nitrate.

### Pronunciation

* (US) enPR: nī'trāt, IPA: /ˈnaɪˌtɹeɪt/, [ˈnaɪ̯ˌtʰɹeɪ̯t]
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪtɹeɪt

### Noun

nitrate (plural nitrates)
* (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
** 1992 March 10, “Removal of Nitrates”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium and potassium nitrates. Numerous water wells have had to be abandoned because of the lack of a way to deal with the problem.
** 2003 August 11, Paul Brown, “Nitrate pollution raises water bills”, in The Guardian‎:The underground water which feeds Britain's springs and rivers and provides a third of its drinking water is becoming seriously polluted with nitrates, causing a threat to wildlife and landing consumers with a big purification bill.
** 2018 March 1, Bee Wilson, “Yes, bacon really is killing us”, in The Guardian‎:The pinkness of bacon – or cooked ham, or salami – is a sign that it has been treated with chemicals, more specifically with nitrates and nitrites.

#### Derived terms

* aluminium nitrate
* ammonia nitrate
* ammonium nitrate
* amyl nitrate
* assimilatory nitrate reductase
* barium nitrate
* beryllium nitrate
* cadmium nitrate
* caesium nitrate
* calcium nitrate
* cellulose nitrate
* ceric ammonium nitrate
* cesium nitrate
* copper nitrate
* dinitrate
* ethyl nitrate
* gallium nitrate
* guanidine nitrate
* hydrogen nitrate
* hydroxylammonium nitrate
* lead nitrate
* lithium nitrate
* magnesium nitrate
* mercuric nitrate
* mercurous nitrate
* mononitrate
* nickel nitrate
* nitrate bath
* nitrate of ammonia
* nitrate of amyl
* nitrate of baryta
* nitrate of bismuth
* nitrate of calcium
* nitrate of cobalt
* nitrate of copper
* nitrate of lead
* nitrate of lime
* nitrate of mercury
* nitrate of potash
* nitrate of potassium
* nitrate of silver
* nitrate of soda
* nitrate of sodium
* nitrate of strontia
* nitrate reductase
* nitrate reductase test
* nitrate vulnerable zone
* nitratian
* nitratine
* nitration
* oxalonitrate
* oxynitrate
* palladium nitrate
* peroxyacetyl nitrate
* plumbous nitrate
* plutonyl nitrate
* potassium nitrate
* promethium nitrate
* rubidium nitrate
* silver-copper nitrate
* silver nitrate
* sodium nitrate
* strontium nitrate
* subnitrate
* sulfonitrate
* sulphonitrate
* tellurium nitrate
* thorium nitrate
* uranic nitrate
* uranium nitrate
* uranyl nitrate

#### Translations
### Verb

nitrate (third-person singular simple present nitrates, present participle nitrating, simple past and past participle nitrated)
* To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

#### Related terms

* nitration
* nitrator

#### Translations
### Further reading

* nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* intreat, iterant, natrite, nattier, tainter, tartine, tertian

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ni.tʁat/

### Noun

nitrate m (plural nitrates)
* nitrate
    Synonym: (rare) azotate

### Further reading

* “nitrate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* attenir, entrait, étirant, inertât, itérant, rentait, tartine

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niˈtra.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: ni‧trà‧te

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

nitrate
* inflection of nitrare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

nitrate
* feminine plural of nitrato

#### Participle

nitrate f pl
* feminine plural of nitrato

### Anagrams

* entrati, intrate, nettari, ritenta, tartine, ternati, tirante, traenti

## Spanish
### Verb

nitrate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of nitrar combined with te