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Six example sentences with nitrate, each labelled with its topic.
Traditional charcuterie relies on a curing salt whose nitrate keeps the ham rosy through months in a cool cellar.
Cooking
Runoff carried nitrate into the estuary, and by August the algae bloom had smothered the eelgrass beds entirely.
Environment
Chilean nitrate fortunes built opera houses in desert towns that emptied once synthetic fertilizer reached the world market.
History
Almost every nitrate salt dissolves in water, which is why the chemistry class uses them to prepare clear stock solutions.
Science
Patients with chest pain slip a nitrate tablet under the tongue, and the widened arteries ease the pressure within minutes.
Medicine
Old reels on cellulose nitrate base can decay into brown powder, so archives store them in cold vaults far from the main building.
Photography
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