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Nitrite is a chemical compound (most commonly sodium nitrite) that contains nitrogen and oxygen and is widely used in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to chemicals. It's also an important intermediate form of nitrogen that naturally cycles through the environment, and the term can refer to organic compounds containing a specific oxygen-nitrogen group.
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- Subclass of
- oxygen compound
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- Commons category
- Nitrites
- topic's main category
- Category:Nitrites
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- nitride compound
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