nitric oxide

1. 1.

   a poisonous red-brown gas (NO)

   Broadergas

Questions about nitric oxide

What does nitric oxide mean?

nitric oxide means "a poisonous red-brown gas (NO)".

Is nitric oxide a common word?

nitric oxide 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.