adjective. Relating to or containing nitrogen, especially in a valence state lower than that in a comparable nitric compound.

In chem., of, pertaining to, or derived from niter: applied to an oxygen compound which contains less oxygen than those in which the epithet nitric is used: thus, nitrous oxid (N₂O), nitric oxid (N₂O₂); nitrous acid (HNO₂), nitric acid (HNO₃), etc.

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

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

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

adjective. See Laughing gas.

adjective. of, relating to, or derived from nitrogen, especially in which the valence of the nitrogen is lower than that of a corresponding nitric species

adjective. of, or relating to nitrous acid or its derivatives

adjective. having a sharp odor like ammonia or nitric acid

noun. Nitrous oxide.

adjective. of or containing nitrogen

"Priestley found that the same kind of air was to be obtained by moistening with the spirit of nitre (which he terms nitrous acid) any kind of earth that is free from phlogiston, and applying heat; and consequently he says: "There remained no doubt on my mind but that the atmospherical air, or the thing that we breathe, consists of the nitrous acid and earth, with so much phlogiston as is necessary to its elasticity, and likewise so much more as is required to bring it from its state of perfect purity to the mean condition in which we find it.""

nitrous acid  nitrous ether  nitrous oxid gas  spirit of nitrous ether  

citrus  

alkyl  amine  arsenious  behenic  carbonic