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Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
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Poetry examples for “nitrate”
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Read full poem →centration as well as in the concentration of nitrates. It happened that
the solution with the highest nitrate . content had also the highest total
concentration. The question is naturally raised, then, as to whether or
Read full poem →of the dry-weight ratios. It was found practicable in this experiment to use
two solutions only, the low-nitrate and the medium-nitrate solutions.
Read full poem →of tops to roots in certain plants were not appreciably altered by increasing
the nitrate concentration of the solution. One of these plants was flax.
Experiment IV was conducted, therefore, with flax to get more data on this
Read full poem →bringing about a change in the morphological character of the root. Since
the growth values in this solution relative to the medium-nitrate solution
(which is the same as that used in Experiment I, both as to nitrate con-