Nitre is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NITRE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• potassium nitrate or saltpetre, also NITER
• A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
• Native sodium carbonate; natron.
• See Niter.
• (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
• potassium nitrate
• potassium nitrate.

Words related to NITRE

niter5 nitres6

Words that contain NITRE

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How to use NITRE in a sentence

• The veins of the palate should be opened, and a few drops of mixture composed of six parts of sweet nitre and one of ammonia, poured down its throat.
• There is also a nitre and powder-manufactory, the former obtained from the earth by a very rude process.
• As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart.
• Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.
• The Dead Sea gave also most probably both sulphur and nitre, but the latter only in small quantities.
• Gatewood informed Wilkins, that in all probability, the richest nitre earth was under the crevice pit.
• A violently inflammable substance, supposed to have been a compound of naphtha, sulphur, and nitre, which was hurled against the enemy in battle.
• The nitre being dissolved in the mucilage, is then added.
• The nitre in the paper causes a continuance of slow combustion, diffusing during that time the agreeable perfume of the odoriferous gums.
• What is Saltpetre? A bitter kind of salt, called by the ancients nitre, but more commonly among us saltpetre.
• The stems and leaves supply much saline mucilage, which, when boiled and cooled, likewise deposits nitre and common salt.
• The leaves, which have no particular odour, throw up crystals of nitre on their surface when cool.
• It now contains but little nutriment of any sort, but supplies some mineral salts, especially nitre.
• Then he had run to the train, impetuous as a man who is excited by revenge, and full of confidence, as are those whom God blinds, he had set fire to the wick of nitre.
• It is then removed from the fire, and left to crystallize, whereupon it yields a large quantity of crystals of nitre, and more or less oxamide.
• With but little oxide a colorless bead is obtained, in which, however, the amethyst-color may be brought out by adding a little nitre.
• If the manganese is present in such a minute quantity as not to perceptibly tinge the bead, the color may be made to appear by the contact of a crystal of nitre while hot.
• If mixed with nitre, the potassa retains the carbonic acid, and the carbon may be thus easily estimated.

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