Definition of "nitration" []

• The reaction of something with nitric acid; especially such a reaction, in the presence of sulphuric acid, to introduce a nitro functional group into a compound. (noun)

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• "Until recently, the utilization of methane as a chemical building block was limited to free radical reactions (combustion, nitration, chlorination, etc.)."
• "Like my research on chemical reaction rates in solution at McGill (kinetics of nitration), it was experimental in nature."
• "Brooklyn Poly - experiments on gas phase reactions, flash photolysis, isotopic exchange electron transfer, bipolar electrolytes, nitration, and photoelectrochemistry, among others-and during all of my stay at NRC and at McGill."