hyponitrous acid

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   an explosive white crystalline weak acid (H2N2O2)

   Broaderacid

Questions about hyponitrous acid

What does hyponitrous acid mean?

hyponitrous acid means "an explosive white crystalline weak acid (H2N2O2)".

Is hyponitrous acid a common word?

hyponitrous acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.