nitric means of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 74 out of 100.
adj
- Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.“In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken wit”