sodium nitrite

1. 1.

   nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens

   Broadernitrite

Questions about sodium nitrite

What does sodium nitrite mean?

sodium nitrite means "nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens".

Is sodium nitrite a common word?

sodium nitrite 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.