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Definition of Nitre

Nitre
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.
Nitre
Nitre Ni"tre, n. (Chem.) See Niter.

Meaning of Nitre from wikipedia

- Niter or nitre is the mineral form of pot****ium nitrate, KNO3. It is a soft, white, highly soluble mineral found primarily in arid climates or cave deposits...
- therefore an alkali metal nitrate. It occurs in nature as a mineral, niter (or nitre in the UK). It is a source of nitrogen, and nitrogen was named after niter...
- Nitraria, known as the nitre bushes, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia....
- The Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau was a civilian government bureau to provide the Confederate States of America with needed materials such as copper...
- Jabir has been translated as follows: Take five parts of pure flowers of nitre, three parts of Cyprus vitriol and two parts of Yemen alum. Powder them...
- of this same remedy, known in the US as sweet nitrite or sweet spirit of nitre, since 1980. Its use has been ****ociated with fatal methemoglobinemia. Methemoglobinemia...
- Sodium nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula NaNO 3. This alkali metal nitrate salt is also known as Chile saltpeter (large deposits of which...
- Although, in modern usage, the word “nitre” (alternatively spelt “niter”) usually refers to the mineral form of pot****ium nitrate, it may also refer to...
- Nitratine or nitratite, also known as cubic niter (UK: nitre), soda niter or Chile saltpeter (UK: Chile saltpetre), is a mineral, the naturally occurring...
- Ivanka pri Nitre (Hungarian: Nyitraivánka) is a village and muni****lity in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia, in the Nitra Region. In historical...