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Preferred term

Sodium Nitrite  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Nitrous acid sodium salt. Used in many industrial processes, in meat curing, coloring, and preserving, and as a reagent in ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES. It is used therapeutically as an antidote in cyanide poisoning. The compound is toxic and mutagenic and will react in vivo with secondary or tertiary amines thereby producing highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.

Entry terms

  • 7632-00-0 (Sodium Nitrite)
  • M0KG633D4F
  • Nitrous acid, sodium salt

In other languages

  • French

  • 7632-00-0 (Sodium Nitrite)
  • Azotite de sodium
  • M0KG633D4F
  • NaNO2
  • Nitrous acid, sodium salt

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-TLDSP6J6-G

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