NITRITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrite mean? 

• NITRITE (noun)
  The noun NITRITE has 1 sense:

1. the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid)

  Familiarity information: NITRITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITRITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("nitrite" is a kind of...):

chemical group; group; radical ((chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nitrite"):

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

 Context examples 

This substance is naturally formed in foods that contain sodium nitrite as a preservative, including meat, fish and cheese, as a result of nitrosation of piperidine in the presence of nitrite.

(N-Nitrosopiperidine, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, non-spore forming, oxidase positive catalase positive, indole and urease negative, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, and hydrolyzes esculin.

(Capnocytophaga canimorsus, NCI Thesaurus)

This substance may be formed during the cooking of foods that contain sodium nitrite as a preservative, including meat, fish and cheese.

(N-Nitrososarcosine, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is non motile, catalase and oxidase positive, indole positive, hydrolyzes starch and reduces nitrates and nitrites.

(Chryseobacterium gleum, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of dietary nitroso-compounds that are formed when nitrites combine with amine groups.

(Dietary Nitrosamine, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

This species is oxidase negative, urease, nitrate and nitrite reductase positive, forms yellow colonies in culture, nonencapsulated and non spore forming.

(Kocuria varians, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitrosodipropylamine may be formed in vivo by the nitrosation of propylamine in the presence of nitrite.

(Nitrosodipropylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the nitrite in a urine specimen.

(Nitrite Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A quantitative measurement of the amount of nitrite present in a sample.

(Nitrite Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, asporogenous, catalase positive, oxidase negative, unable to reduce nitrates to nitrites, hydrolyzes esculin and produces acid from D glucose, D xylose and alpha methyl D mannoside.

(Listeria welshimeri, NCI Thesaurus)