title: Is nitrate really an inert electrolyte? A brief review.
abstract: It has been common practice to use sodium or potassium nitrate as a supposedly inert background electrolyte or for adjustment of ionic strength, but nitrate forms sufficiently stable complexes with many metals for its use to result in erroneous values for stability constants. This note surveys the effects.
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authors.lastname: Stulíková