Nitrate
Nitrate verb - Treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate.
Usage example: nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol
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Synonyms for Nitrate
Process and nitrate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Process" instead a verb "Nitrate".
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- Even more ironically, the invention of the Haber process thirty years later would render the nitrate deposits that served as the casus belli completely worthless—why mine nitrate when you can literally make it out of thin air (and water or natural gas, but whatever)?
- Until the discovery of the Haber Process the early 20th century, nitrate was not readily available, so in order to grow food and have operative guns, you needed large sources of nitrate...and guess what the best kind was?
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