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Organic Chemicals > Nitrites > Sodium Nitrite
... > Inorganic Chemicals > Electrolytes > Ions > Anions > Nitrites > Sodium Nitrite
Inorganic Chemicals > Nitrogen Compounds > Nitrous Acid > Nitrites > Sodium Nitrite
... > Inorganic Chemicals > Acids > Acids, Noncarboxylic > Nitrous Acid > Nitrites > Sodium Nitrite
Inorganic Chemicals > Sodium Compounds > Sodium Nitrite

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Sodium Nitrite  

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Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under NITRITES 1979-90

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