nitrolic

[nahy-trol-ik]

adjective Chemistry.

of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO2, whose salts form deep-red solutions.

Origin of nitrolic

First recorded in 1890–95; nitr- + -ol¹ + -ic

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