To remove nitrate or nitrates from something, especially as a chemical process.
From de- (remove) + nitrate. Nitrate comes from nitre/niter (potassium nitrate), with the Latin root from Greek nitron (lye). The -ate ending indicates a chemical process.
Scientists invented this word to describe a specific chemical removal process—it shows how modern chemistry creates verbs to describe exactly what chemicals do to each other.
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