Sodium nitrite lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens
• Nitrous acid sodium salt. Used in many industrial processes, in meat curing, coloring, and preserving, and as a reagent in analytical chemistry. 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.