(chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.

To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

simple past tense and past participle of nitrate

Reacted, or treated with, nitric acid or a nitrate. / (of photographic material) Treated with silver nitrate.

plural of nitrate

(chemistry) The reaction of something with nitric acid; especially such a reaction, in the presence of sulphuric acid, to introduce a nitro functional group into a compound.

a reaction vessel in which nitration takes place / a device for spreading nitrate fertilizer on the soil

plural of nitrator

present participle of nitrate

That promotes nitration