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Nitrous adj.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.

(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.

Nitrous acid (Chem.), a hypothetical acid of nitrogen HNO2, not known in the free state, but forming a well known series of salts, viz., the nitrites.

Nitrous oxide. See Laughing gas.

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Etymology of 'Nitrous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nitrous" Quotes from Famous Books

... it as allowing your Description; for it might as well be called Yellow as Blue; for Colour is nothing but the various Infractions of the Rays of the Sun. Miss Molly told me one Day; That to say Snow was white, is allowing a vulgar Error; for as it contains a great Quantity of nitrous Particles, it [might more reasonably][6] be supposed to be black. In short, the young Husseys would persuade me, that to believe ones Eyes is a sure way to be deceived; and have often advised me, by no means, to trust any thing so fallible as my Senses. What I have to beg of you now ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... discovery that by breathing sulphuric ether a person can become insensible to pain and then recover consciousness. The glory of the discovery has been claimed for Dr. Morton and Dr. Jackson, who used it in 1846. Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) was used as an ansesthetic before this time ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... these are the things that prevent even the most reliable things from being absolutely reliable. It is they that form the point of contact between this universe and something else quite different in which none of those fundamental ideas obtain without which we cannot think at all. So we say that nitrous acid is more ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

Words linked to "Nitrous" : nitric, nitrous bacteria, nitrogen, nitrous bacterium, nitrous oxide, nitrous acid, azotic