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Ni"trate (?), n. [Cf. F. nitrate.] Chem.
A salt of nitric acid.
Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic.<-- usu. called silver nitrate -->
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