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Nitrate vs Sodium - What's the difference?

nitrate | sodium |

As nouns the difference between nitrate and sodium

is that nitrate is any salt or ester of nitric acid while sodium is a soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature, and a chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977.

As a verb nitrate

is to treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate.

nitrate

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
  • Derived terms

    * ammonia nitrate, ammonium nitrate * ammonium nitrate * amyl nitrate * assimilatory nitrate reductase * barium nitrate * beryllium nitrate * cadmium nitrate * caesium nitrate, cesium nitrate * calcium nitrate * cellulose nitrate * ceric ammonium 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 * nitrate bath * nickel nitrate * 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 * nitratine * nitration * nitrate reductase test * nitrate vulnerable zone * oxalonitrate * oxynitrate * palladium nitrate * peroxyacetyl nitrate * plumbous nitrate * plutonyl nitrate * potassium nitrate * promethium nitrate * silver-copper nitrate * silver nitrate * sodium nitrate * strontium nitrate * subnitrate * sulfonitrate, sulphonitrate * tellurium nitrate * thorium nitrate * uranic nitrate * uranium nitrate * uranyl nitrate

    Verb

    (nitrat)
  • To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    sodium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun) (wikipedia sodium)
  • A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature, and a chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977.
  • Synonyms

    * natrium (rare)

    Derived terms

    * disodium * hydrogen sodium arsenate * monosodium * Pentothal sodium * sodian * sodic * sodio- * * sodium aluminium fluoride, sodium aluminum fluoride * sodium amalgam * sodium Amytal * sodium antimonate * sodium arsenate * sodium arsenide * sodium aurate * sodium benzoate * sodium bicarbonate * sodium bisulfite, sodium bisulphite * sodium borohydride * sodium bromate * sodium bromide * sodium carbide * sodium carbonate * sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate * sodium chlorate * sodium chloride * sodium chlorite * sodium chromate * sodium-cooled * sodium dithiophosphate * sodium monofluorophosphate * sodium fluoride * sodium hexafluoroantimonate * sodium hexametaphosphate * sodium hydride * sodium hydrogen carbonate * sodium hydrogen sulfite, sodium hydrogen sulphite * sodium hydroxide * sodium iodide * sodium lamp * sodium manganate * sodium metaphosphate * sodium nitrate * sodium orthophosphate * sodium oxide * sodium Pentothal * sodium perborate * sodium peroxide * sodium perxenate * sodium phosphate * sodium phosphomolybdate * sodium plumbate * sodium polysulfide, sodium polysulphide * sodium pump * sodium pyrophosphate * sodium selenide * sodium selenite * sodium soap * sodium stannate * sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate * sodium sulfide, sodium sulphide * sodium terbium borate * sodium tetraborate decahydrate * sodium tetraborate pentahydrate * sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulphate * sodium trimetaphosphate * sodium tripolyphosphate * sodium tungstate * sodium vapor lamp, sodium vapour lamp * sodium zircofluoride * stannide of sodium * telluret of sodium * trisodium

    See also

    * amphibole * borax * Chile saltpeter, Chile saltpetre * cryolite * halite * natron * salt * zeolite ----