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Nitro-Benzene
an oily body prepared by gradually adding benzene to cold fuming nitric acid. It is a yellowish liquid with a sweet taste, and an odor of oil of bitter almonds. Much used by perfumers under the name of oil of mirbane, and manufactured in large quantities for the preparation of aniline and its derivatives.
NITROGEN are replaced by an equivalent quantity of nitryl (NO₂); thus, lactic acid C3H6O3, becomes nitro-lactic acid C3H6 (NO₂) Oz. The nitro compounds are nitro-marin, nitro-tartaric acid, nitrosaccharose, benzoic acid, nitro-carbolic acid, nitro-coumarin, etc.