Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sodium_nitrite

1 sense of sodium nitrite

Sense 1
sodium nitrite -- (nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens)
       => nitrite -- (the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid))