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Meanings of saltpetre in English
Portuguese
nitrato de potassio Catalan
salnitre 
Synonyms
Examples for "nitre"
Examples for "nitre"
1
The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre, gives a red.
2
As in orange ochre, powdered nitre may be employed in its preparation.
3
It is the salt of their speech, the nitre of their wit.
4
A tea-spoonful of sweet spirits of nitre will sometimes bring early relief.
5
I'll bring a bottle of nitre in my bag,-andshe bustled out.
1
But I could find no saltpeter; indeed, no nitrates of any kind.
2
I thought Don needed ten pounds of saltpeter pumped up a catheter.
3
The bag is in case you spot saltpeter crystals along the way.
4
Procure us some iron for the barrels, steel for the hammers, saltpeter.
5
They found a place where saltpeter was very thinly and erratically distributed.
1
And all that was in the bottle was sweet spirits of niter.
2
The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of niter, gives a red.
3
Probably extract their niter from the dung of their horses and cows.
4
This niter-soaked fabric I thought might serve as tinder for the spark.
5
Trails of niter ran down the walls like melted wax.
1
On cooling, potassium nitrate crystallizes out, leaving small amounts of the other salts in solution.
2
As the potassium nitrate burns, it lets off oxygen.
3
Gunpowder, a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate, gets its oxygen from the nitrate.
4
Instead, they'd purchased potassium nitrate for use in glass-making-glassmaking being their stated business and occupation.
5
Among the ingredients are barium nitrate, potassium perchlorate, powdered aluminum, powdered magnesium, potassium nitrate, and sulphur.
Usage of saltpetre in English
1
Gunpowder was also made with saltpetre and sulphur found in the country.
2
But I could find no saltpetre; indeed, no nitrates of any kind.
3
A large building in which quantities of saltpetre was stored caught next.
4
There is no appearance of sulphur, saltpetre or any other combustible material.
5
He got saltpetre and one or two other things from the chemist.
6
Salt and saltpetre are 'made from the soil immediately round the town.
7
The earth was as bleached as though covered with snow or saltpetre.
8
Gold is the most abundant; but saltpetre and naphtha are among the products.
9
The saltpetre acts on the kidneys, carrying off the impurities in this way.
10
For the time being saltpetre is obtained by all countries from Chile only.
11
Round about them there is a thin crust of saltpetre, magnesia, and salt.
12
What shall she do when her stock of saltpetre runs out?
13
Rotten lemons, iron filings, and saltpetre, by all that is abominable!
14
I heard the spluttering of a port-fire, and smelt the saltpetre of the match.
15
Neither metal, saltpetre, nor coal can be wanting in the bowels of the moon.
16
Parisians discovered saltpetre in their cellars when they no longer received any from abroad.
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