: a salt NaNO2 used especially in dye manufacture and as a meat preservative
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However, consuming products with sodium nitrite levels above regulatory limits may pose health risks.—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 The powder, sodium nitrite, can be used as a food preservative — or as a rocket propellant — according to the National Library of Medicine.—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024 Authorities now believe websites operated by Law sold sodium nitrite—a food preservative that can be deadly if ingested—and related equipment that caused the deaths of adults and minors in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K, according to Canada’s Peel Regional Police.—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024 Kenneth Law, who's charged with 14 charges of aiding suicide, is also being charged in Canada with 14 counts of second-degree murder for selling sodium nitrite online to people at risk of self harm.—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for sodium nitrite
: a salt used especially in the manufacture of dyes and as a meat preservative
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sodium nitrite
noun
: a colorless or yellowish deliquescent salt NaNO2 that is used as a meat preservative and in medicine as a vasodilator and an antidote for cyanide poisoning
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