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noun
The sodium salt of nitrous acid, NaNO2; used as a food preservative and in many industrial applications.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nitrite
History
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