niter

Senso (Inglese)

1. (US, countable, uncountable) A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Native sodium carbonate; natron.

Concetti

salnitro

nitrato di potassio

sinonimi

saltpeter

nitre

potassium nitrate

saltpetre

salpetre

nitrel

Nitrum

nitrokalite

Traduzioni

salpeter

nitro

salitre

nitre

nitre

salpêtre

NaNO3

salitre

nitrato de potássio

Nitrato de potassio

nitrat potàsic

güherçile

salnitre

Salpeter

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Middle English niter, nitere, nitre, nytre, from Old French nitre, from Latin nitrum (“native soda, natron”), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron). Ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”). Doublet of natron and trona. Compare also natrium, nitrogen.