Nitric acid trihydrate

From Glossary of Meteorology



nitric acid trihydrate

(Also known as NAT.) A stable crystalline form of nitric acid and water, consisting of three molecules of water for every molecule of nitric acid. Polar stratospheric clouds (type I) may be in the form of NAT at least part of the time.


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