nitrolic acid
Chemistry
noun
Any of a group of crystalline compounds of the general formula RC(NOH)NO2 (where R is an alkyl group), which dissolve in aqueous alkalis to form red solutions.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Forster Morley (b. 1855).
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