nitric acid

1. 1.

   acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels

   Synonymsaqua fortis

   Broaderacid

Questions about nitric acid

What does nitric acid mean?

nitric acid means "acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels".

What is another word for nitric acid?

Close synonyms include aqua fortis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nitric acid a common word?

nitric 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.