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Butyl nitrate

chemical compound

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ5003174 ↗
Source-derived summary

Butyl nitrate is a colorless oil. It is often confused with butyl nitrite, which is sometimes used as a recreational inhalant.

Safety

Butyl nitrate is an explosive. It reacts explosively with Lewis acids such as boron trifluoride and aluminium chloride. When heated to decomposition, it emits fumes of nitrous oxide.

References

"Nitric Acid, Butylester." Butyl Nitrate (928-45-0), Butyl Nitrate (928-45-0) Manufacturers & Suppliers, Synthesis, MSDS. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012.

Osterloh J, Goldfield D (1984).

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“Butyl nitrate” enters the record as chemical compound. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Butyl, nitrate and chemical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Butyl, nitrate and chemical.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5003174. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Butyl nitrate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.