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'nitric acid' is a correctly written and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of acid with the chemical formula HNO3. For example, "The nitric acid in the lab was extremely corrosive and harmful to handle without proper equipment."
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nitric acid
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A transparent, colourless to pale yellow, fuming corrosive liquid, HNO3; a highly reactive oxidizing agent used in the production of fertilizers, explosives, and rocket fuels and in a wide variety of industrial processes; once called aqua fortis.
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Potassium chlorate versus nitric acid.
2.2 Nitric acid plants.
One group used very concentrated nitric acid.
Commercially, nitric acid is produced by the Ostwald process.
They oxidize graphite flakes with sulphuric or nitric acid.
Nitric acid can also be stored with oxidizers.
In forms like nitric acid, nitrous oxide, ammonia and nitrate it plays a variety of roles.
It is unaffected by hydrochloric acid, but either nitric acid or aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid) oxidizes it to tellurous acid (H2TeO3).
Nitrates, which are salts of nitric acid, are produced when metals or their oxides, hydroxides, or carbonates react with nitric acid.
Nitric acid decomposes into water, nitrogen dioxide, and oxygen, forming a brownish yellow solution.
Vanadium dissolves in concentrated sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid, and aqua regia.
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