What is another word for Nitrates?

Pronunciation: [nˈa͡ɪtɹe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Nitrates are chemical compounds composed of nitrogen and oxygen atoms. They are commonly found in soil, water, and organic matter. Nitrates play a significant role in many industrial and agricultural processes such as fertilizers, explosives, dyes, and medicines. Synonyms for the term nitrates include Nitrogen compounds, azides, nitrogen oxides, and nitrites. These chemical compounds are essential for plant growth. However, excessive use of nitrates in fertilizers may cause environmental contamination and affect human health. Awareness campaigns and regulations have been implemented to limit the use of nitrates in agricultural practices and protect the environment.

What are the hypernyms for Nitrates?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    salts, minerals, chemical compounds, agricultural nutrients.

Usage examples for Nitrates

And my suggestion about Nitrates ...
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
We did give them Nitrates here, but that was because they had exhausted the elements in the dirt floors of their prison huts.
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
We answer-because, in the first place the rains which quickly descend through the open soil, wash down out of the reach of vegetation the soluble fertilizing matters, especially the Nitrates, for which the soil has no retentive power; and in the second place, from the porosity of the soil, the air has too great access, so that the vegetable and animal matters of manures decay too rapidly, their volatile portions, ammonia and carbonic acid, escape into the atmosphere, and are in measure lost to the crops.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson

Related words: nitrate, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite, ammonium nitrate, nitric acid

Semantically related words: chemical compound, chemical name, chemical structure, chemical formula

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