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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white crystalline compound, NaNO3, used in solid rocket propellants, in the manufacture of nitric acid, explosives, and glass and pottery enamel, and as fertilizer.
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- noun chemistry the sodium
salt ofnitric acid , NaNO3; used as afood preservative , and as anoxidizing agent inexplosives etc.
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- noun (NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
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