Niter or nitre is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO3. It is a soft, white, highly soluble mineral found primarily in arid climates or cave deposits...

acetate in alcohol "Spirit of nitre" is not a spirit in this sense, but an old name for nitric acid (but "sweet spirit of nitre" was ethyl nitrite) Similarly...

New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508083-1. OCLC 33013451. "nitre". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription...

wrapped squeeze it well. Then put it into an earthenware vessel with zimat, nitre, salt and long peppers, the whole well powdered. Leave it in this vessel...

extracted from fertile soils and plant remains (Yavakshara) such as saltpetre/nitre, perfume making (different qualities of perfumes are mentioned), granulated...

centre, fibre, goitre, litre, lustre, manoeuvre, meagre, metre, mitre, nitre, ochre, reconnoitre, sabre, saltpetre, sepulchre, sombre, spectre, theatre...

1790 by French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832), from the French nitre (potassium nitrate, also called saltpeter) and the French suffix -gène,...

such a vast height he gives two explanations: That either vast mounds of nitre and salt were heaped up against the pyramid, which were then melted away...

Retrieved 14 May 2017. "Hackerský útok zasiahol aj Fakultnú nemocnicu v Nitre". etrend.sk (in Slovak). 15 May 2017. Archived from the original on 16 May...

included. Each family's formal name ends in the Latin suffix -aceae and is derived from the name of a genus that is or once was part of the family. Some plants...