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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deadly poisonous reddish brown gas, NO2, denser than air, often found in smog and automobile exhaust fumes and synthesized for use as a nitrating agent, a catalyst, and an oxidizing agent.
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- noun inorganic chemistry the
binary compound NO2, a brownish gas that is apoisonous air pollutant ; it exists in equilibrium withdinitrogen tetroxide .
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- noun a highly poisonous brown gas (NO2)
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