Salts of nitrous acid or compounds containing the group NO2-. The inorganic nitrites of the type MNO2 (where M=metal) are all insoluble, except the alkali nitrites. The organic nitrites may be isomeric, but not identical with the corresponding nitro compounds. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
    

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The pharmacological action and therapeutic uses of the nitrites and allied compounds : including the Croonian lectures for 1893 / by Daniel John Leech ; ed. by R.B. Wild.

Nitrates, nitrites, and N-nitroso compounds.

Death rush : poppers & AIDS / John Lauritsen, Hank Wilson.

Health hazards of nitrite inhalants / editors, Harry W. Haverkos, John A. Dougherty.

Nitrites (poppers) / HIT.

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The pharmacological action and therapeutic uses of the nitrites and allied compounds : including the Croonian lectures for 1893 / by Daniel John Leech ; ed. by R.B. Wild.

Nitrates, nitrites, and N-nitroso compounds.

Death rush : poppers & AIDS / John Lauritsen, Hank Wilson.

Health hazards of nitrite inhalants / editors, Harry W. Haverkos, John A. Dougherty.

Nitrites (poppers) / HIT.