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nitre


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Niter  \Ni"ter\,  Nitre  \Ni"tre\,  n.  [F.  nitre,  L.  nitrum  native 
  soda,  natron,  Gr  ?;  cf  Ar  nit?n,  natr?n  natron.  Cf 
  {Natron}.] 
  1.  (Chem.)  A  white  crystalline  semitransparent  salt; 
  potassium  nitrate;  saltpeter.  See  {Saltpeter}. 
 
  2.  (Chem.)  Native  sodium  carbonate;  natron.  [Obs.] 
 
  For  though  thou  wash  thee  with  niter,  and  take  thee 
  much  soap,  yet  thine  iniquity  is  marked  before  me 
  --Jer.  ii  22. 
 
  {Cubic  niter},  a  deliquescent  salt,  sodium  nitrate,  found  as 
  a  native  incrustation,  like  niter,  in  Peru  and  Chili, 
  whence  it  is  known  also  as  {Chili  saltpeter}. 
 
  {Niter  bush}  (Bot.),  a  genus  ({Nitraria})  of  thorny  shrubs 
  bearing  edible  berries,  and  growing  in  the  saline  plains 
  of  Asia  and  Northern  Africa. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nitre  \Ni"tre\,  n.  (Chem.) 
  See  {Niter}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nitre 
  n  :  (KNO3)  used  especially  as  a  fertilizer  and  explosive  [syn:  {potassium 
  nitrate},  {saltpeter},  {saltpetre},  {niter}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Nitre 
  (Prov.  25:20;  R.V.  marg.,  "soda"),  properly  "natron,"  a 
  substance  so  called  because  rising  from  the  bottom  of  the  Lake 
  Natron  in  Egypt,  it  becomes  dry  and  hard  in  the  sun,  and  is  the 
  soda  which  effervesces  when  vinegar  is  poured  on  it  It  is  a 
  carbonate  of  soda,  not  saltpetre,  which  the  word  generally 
  denotes  (Jer.  2:22;  R.V.  "lye"). 
 




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